Interview Quotes

The Knicks and New York Grit

"If you look at the footage, it's the way the garden used to be. Now the tunnels are on the corners. It used to be in the middle. I snuck down with my buddy Brett. We're on the tunnel exits. You can see the players getting, and it's very pixelated on the footage, but you can see a little kid going nuts on the players. That was me."

— SPEAKER_08 • 00:03:18

"I'm from the Bronx and even growing up in the Bronx I was like yo Brooklyn is different like yo that's another it's another planet over there"

— SPEAKER_02 • 00:12:41

"When you think about the greatness that comes out of Brownsville too and the culture that comes out of Brownsville and the culture that's still there it gives you a whole different perspective of Brownsville now don't get me wrong Brownsville is fucked up but then you have you have a you have a culture in Brownsville that is so connected to each other and everybody amongst Brownsville that if you ain't from Brownsville yeah stay the fuck away from Brownsville"

— SPEAKER_03 • 00:17:56

"Project stories is totally different it's a totally different experience you you talking about living in a box you talk about living within four walls you talk about two three bedroom apartments six seven people in the apartment sharing food you know it's a different experience you ride the top of the elevators this is shit that we used to do back in the day ride the top of the elevators play football and tag on the roof this is project shit you know what I mean it's a maze when you're in the project you got to figure it out"

— SPEAKER_03 • 00:23:10

"My whole life my my grandma was a huge Knicks fan so that's what turned me on to them and if you if you live in New York you are a Knicks fan you know my grandma had a New York Giants teddy bear and a New York Jets teddy bear but she only had a New York Knicks teddy bear you know no disrespect to Nets fans but if you're a Nets fan yeah"

— SPEAKER_08 • 00:40:11

"I mean that that Knicks run last year was the most fun uh not just being a fan I think that was the most fun period of my life yeah those four months I mean I'm not even kidding like that was just the garden being electric seeing Melo I met Melo briefly courtside seeing Stefan Marbury there I love Stefan he's got a soft spot in my heart you know and even though the team didn't go to the heights they wanted Stefan is New York"

— SPEAKER_08 • 01:03:06

"What New York does is it keeps you on point like it it keeps you reminded that I have to be my I have to do my best and I have to be the best so if you embrace that it you want you're gonna be good because you're gonna do what you have to do to be the best every single night but when you don't embrace that and you just I'm gonna go through the motions and I'm gonna just be cool and okay I'm gonna play this you can't treat New York like you could treat any other city when it comes to performance you can't do that"

— SPEAKER_03 • 01:17:08

The Pursuit of Greatness and Artistic Influence

"Honestly was I feel like being a fan of sports I look at things with an athletic background acting that is and I like to not that I'm competitive but I like to see what my peers are doing and but everything's very friendly at the end of the day when you see other actors that worship and really my big takeaway from Kendrick's was it was during all the huge beef last year I was just so amazed like I was so impressed that this man who was so calm sitting next to me and I was like wow he's engaged in a gladiator sport right now and as much as I love hip-hop and all this I was sitting next I was like wow I could not do that"

— SPEAKER_08 • 01:28:30

"Marty Supreme is about the pursuit of greatness that's what this movie is about it's about ambition it's about having a dream at a time where it's hard to have a dream you know for that kind of speech it's just about recontextualizing I feel like the environment I'm in because you think about De Niro you think about Leonardo DiCaprio Daniel Day-Lewis those are the greats the way Michael Jordan's a great but people don't want to make room for the greats today because the nostalgia is so thick"

— SPEAKER_08 • 01:49:47

"That's why the last dance was the most influential piece of art from Marty Supreme more than any other movie or whatever but the Jordan tenacity the pursuit of greatness even the fact that he's an asshole you know"

— SPEAKER_08 • 01:57:26

"It's hard for me to imagine these guys I don't want to say fucking with what I've done because I feel like Marty Supreme's the most thing like an athlete could really relate to but it's just hard man it's like I always felt like an outsider but I hear you you know and those bridges are important especially in this day and age at least for the acting industry that people feel like it's not just a bunch of wackos in Hollywood making movies that are inaccessible but actually making things that people want to see that's what I'm really trying to do with Dune but also with Marty Supreme it's like this is for real people"

— SPEAKER_08 • 02:21:14

Advice and Authenticity

"The best advice is no advice man yo go swing for the fences champ like you know what I mean I ain't got nothing to tell you man"

— SPEAKER_02 • 02:34:09

"It's like not being shy Stephon Marbury it's like you know just like you know be proud of what you do and you know that's my whole thing you know increasingly like you know"

— SPEAKER_08 • 02:42:14

"When you get up in these rooms and you get the opportunity do your thing speak your piece man say it with your chest be ready when your jersey number is called"

— SPEAKER_03 • 02:44:26

"Fuck With It or Fuck Out of Here"

"0831 AM on IG that is a wild name that's a wild hand might be a bot you know what I'm saying it's a perfect pair if you ever need to go from Sunday service to Sunday run"

— SPEAKER_02 • 02:53:22

"I got no comment on that one unless you didn't have a body double"

— SPEAKER_08 • 03:05:35

"Yeah I fuck with the creativity I like it nice pair of threes wants to waste for that so I got it get them out of here or not you know half of the couch like some half of the you know what I'm saying we'll pass not sure if you heard but there's an internet theory going around that you moonlight as a UK drill rapper by the name of SD Kid"

— SPEAKER_05 • 03:09:28

"The physicality is on a 12 out of 10 the fashion 12 out of 10 the box tee the whole look yeah I'm definitely fucking with it the silky tied perfectly you're giving Willie Hermione Gomez a run for his money"

— SPEAKER_08 • 03:23:58