Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Craig Brewer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American film director Craig Brewer.

Last updated on November 10, 2024.

Craig Brewer is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". He is also known for directing the 2011 remake of Footloose, the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name and the 2021 film Coming 2 America; the latter two starring Academy Award-nominee Eddie Murphy.

American - Film director | Born: December 6, 1971

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I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.

Craig Brewer

I'm surprised by how many people have not seen 'Footloose.'

Craig Brewer

I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.

Craig Brewer

I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.

Craig Brewer

You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.

Craig Brewer

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

Craig Brewer

I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.

Craig Brewer

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Craig Brewer

There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.

Craig Brewer

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

Craig Brewer

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

Craig Brewer

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

Craig Brewer

And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.

Craig Brewer

That movie was my girlfriend. That was my girl." I knew there was going to be initial anger. As a matter of fact, when I was deciding to do Footloose that was one of the first things that I had to realize. First of all, I had to figure out a human connection to it but then I also had to reconcile that I was going to get beat up a little bit on this a little bit.

Craig Brewer

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Craig Brewer

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