Noel Clarke Quotes & Sayings

“I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.”

“Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.”

“I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.”

“I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.'”

“I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.”

“I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.”

“I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.”

“I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.”

“People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.”

“I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?”