"When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Haile Gerima

#Writing Quotes #Names Quotes #Venice Quotes

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
“Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time.”
“You know, I'm pretty much an open book.”
“Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.”
“And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.”
“A lot of times I just feel like this is not a special day, these are just clothes that I bought.”
“Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.”
“Poetry is the deification of reality.”

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