Walter Mosley

Mosley, Walter Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lone Wolves & Dragon Tattoos: How Scandinavian Crime Fiction Conquered the World

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Little Scarlet

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Little Scarlet

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Little Scarlet

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Jack Kirby: Story Teller

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Manchurian Candidate

  2004, role: actor , character name: Congressman Rawlins
• Play in Full Screen The Law and Mr. Lee

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Passage du milieu

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Always Outnumbered

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Always Outnumbered

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Always Outnumbered

  1998, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Devil in a Blue Dress

  1995, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Devil in a Blue Dress

  1995, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Works III

  1994, role: writer

Famous quotes by Walter Mosley:

"You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed. I'm upset about Katrina. I'm upset that our country follows a conservative economic program that allows poor people to lose their safety net."

"you're kinda like the shifting sand in a way."

"At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world (to be published). You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good."

"The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different genres is I'm trying to lay out a landscape for black male heroes."

"There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it."

"You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed,"

"He's not wild in the way that he once was. He wants a deeper commitment or relationship with a woman."

"There was a whole black experience from the hippie movement. It's a whole new world."

"It's 1966, Easy has to come to San Francisco,"

"For some people, racism has faded in the background. But not for him. It's still there even when he doesn't experience it. It's become a metaphysical experience in his life."

"I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'"

"I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things."

"When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done."

"We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'"

"All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought."

"All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out."

"My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8."

"Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity."

"My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics."

"My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life."

Walter Mosley