Abderrahmane Sissako famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

#Important #Stories #France
The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

#Life #Artist #Roles
Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's universal.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

#Beautiful #World #Your Girlfriend
I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

#Country #Stories #France
Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

#People #Islam
Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

#Names #People #Going Out
Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

#Vibrations #Music Is #Humans
Of course, technology is very important now. It's there, its available. It's there to be use however you see fit. You can use it and the jihadist can use it. In their case they have been very effective at making use of technology, particularly with websites. It's primarily through these websites that they do their recruiting. But it's not technology that makes them that way.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

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I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do.
-- Abderrahmane Sissako

#Fighting #Thinking #People

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Abderrahmane Sissako famous quotes

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