John Ridley Quotes

We want to be able to be political, but we don`t want it, on a weekly basis, to be on race and politics and polemics. We want it to be a lot more fun.

The first `Barbershop` kicked the door open and said, `Look, we`re going to talk about whatever we want to talk about.` I think the responsible thing we have to do, even though it`s a comedy, even though we have a lot of fun, and even though in some way we are a little more absurdist than the movies, is to recognize that just to bring up a topic for the sake of bringing it up is not enough,

The first Barbershop kicked the door open and said, `Look, we`re going to talk about whatever we want to talk about.` I think the responsible thing we have to do, even though it`s a comedy, even though we have a lot of fun, and even though in someway we are a little more absurdist than the movies, is to recognize that just to bring up a topic for the sake of bringing it up is not enough,

The first Barbershop kicked the door open and said, `Look, we`re going to talk about whatever we want to talk about.` I think the responsible thing we have to do, even though it`s a comedy, even though we have a lot of fun, and even though in someway we are a little more absurdist than the movies, is to recognize that just to bring up a topic for the sake of bringing it up is not enough.

Doing adaptations is hard, ... because once you say, `I`m going to take everything that millions of other readers have thought of and I`m going to make the definitive version of that,` ... I think it`s a really hard thing to do.

That was a movie that was really wild and really funny, but you remember Cleavon Little is a black sheriff in the Old West. It was about race and politics, but it was one hell of a good time.

The first `Barbershop` kicked the door open and said, `Look, we`re going to talk about whatever we want to talk about.` I think the responsible thing we have to do, even though it`s a comedy, even though we have a lot of fun, and even though in someway we are a little more absurdist than the movies, is to recognize that just to bring up a topic for the sake of bringing it up is not enough.

The first `Barbershop` kicked the door open and said, `Look, we`re going to talk about whatever we want to talk about.` I think the responsible thing we have to do, even though it`s a comedy, even though we have a lot of fun, and even though in someway we are a little more absurdist than the movies, is to recognize that just to bring up a topic for the sake of bringing it up is not enough,

The first `Barbershop` kicked the door open and said, `Look, we`re going to talk about whatever we want to talk about.` I think the responsible thing we have to do, even though it`s a comedy, even though we have a lot of fun, and even though in some way we are a little more absurdist than the movies, is to recognize that just to bring up a topic for the sake of bringing it up is not enough.