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. James McBride Read Quote
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. James McBride Read Quote
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. James McBride Read Quote
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don’t want to touch. James McBride Read Quote
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. James McBride Read Quote
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. James McBride Read Quote
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. James McBride Read Quote
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 other people as well. There’s so much pain in it. James McBride Read Quote
