James Mcbride Quotes

Most Famous James Mcbride Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best james-mcbride quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 James Mcbride Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Be kind to the living.

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

Popular Quotes Topics for You.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

The black church will accept anybody.

As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by...

People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.

I read more history books than anything else.

I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

You can play Mozart all you want and pretend that it gives you class, but what is class, you know? Class is a bus driver on the M103 who gets off the bus to help somebody on board even though...

When you tell them you're a writer, they say, 'What have you written?' And then you've got to tell them what you've done. I don't ask a plumber what he does. Then I have to explain what I've done, and...

Guys, we are trying to share Unique James Mcbride Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.