James McBride quotes

As a journalist, the details always tell the story. (James McBride)

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

James McBride

Be kind to the living.

James McBride

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

James McBride

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.

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My family is my career.

James McBride

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

James McBride

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.

James McBride

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

James McBride

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

James McBride

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford. (James McBride)

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

James McBride

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

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

James McBride

The black church will accept anybody.

James McBride

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

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

James McBride

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

James McBride