38 Quotes by Noel Clarke

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.

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

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 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 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 that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

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

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.