"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."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Abderrahmane Sissako

#Country Quotes #Stories Quotes #France Quotes

“The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.”
“Harness the power of peers.”
“Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.”
“If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin”
“We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.”
“When you're aware, from a young age, of how something plays in public, it makes you a young entrepreneur, whether you like it or not. I call most teenagers 'young entrepreneurs' because from a young age we're aware that our social media is building our brand. And if, when you're 13, you're concerned with building your brand, then "like" disparities matter.”
“Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.”
“Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.”

Source : Lisa McMann (2010). “Gone”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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