32 Quotes by George Tillman, Jr.

Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.

I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

I shoot a lot of film - that's one of the things I try to do, and it's one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on 'Men of Honor.'

I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.

I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.

Sometimes I get into the movies and into the roles; it's hard for me to move on.