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Jihan El-Tahri
"If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough." --
Source : "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.
Jihan El-Tahri
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“In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.”
“We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.”
“People who understand everything get no stories.”
“Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.”
“Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.”
“It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.”
Source : Speech to the "Central Academy of Fine Arts" in Beijing, December 8, 2009.
“Me neither,†Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.†“I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,†Amelie said.”
“Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.”
