Top 13 Noel Clarke Quotes

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.

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?

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

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 the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don’t make a commercial film, distributors can’t get behind it. If they don’t get behind it, the film doesn’t do well.

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 think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they’re the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I don’t like doing things that are too easy.

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

I don’t think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn’t have me down. It’s definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don’t dwell on it.

After ‘Kidulthood,’ I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn’t write women very well. I was very annoyed.

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.

I’m just who I am. I don’t try to change myself for other people.