Jeffrey Wright Quotes

• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything’s cool, and you don’t necessarily want to know what’s in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  Jeffrey Wright

• Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It’s seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

  Jeffrey Wright

• The great thing about movies is that they’re collaborative. And the worst thing is that they’re collaborative.

  Jeffrey Wright

• Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry – except that he wasn’t as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

  Jeffrey Wright

• I’m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I’m two steps away from the other side when I’m out there. It’s more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.

  Jeffrey Wright

• I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone’s stage or in front of someone’s camera.

  Jeffrey Wright

• I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can’t do it. They don’t have the chops.

  Jeffrey Wright

• I like New York because you’re kind of forced to smell everybody else’s funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

  Jeffrey Wright

• For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

  Jeffrey Wright

• And it’s one reason why I don’t go to a lot of movies – they’re more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

  Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright (10)

Birth:	7th December, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Jeffrey Wright was born in Washington, D.C., USA. He is an American actor. He earned a BA degree in Political Science from Amherst College in 1987. His role in several films include: Presumed Innocent, Basquiat, Cement, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Source Code, A Single Shot, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. His role in television include: Boycott (TV film), Angels in America (miniseries, Won- Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series), Blackout (TV film), Boardwalk Empire (crime drama TV series), Confirmation (TV film), and Westworld (TV series).

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