"It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Haile Gerima

#Passion Quotes #People Quotes #Hook Quotes

“Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?”
“Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.”
“We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].”
“As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing. . . playing helpless.”

Source : "Gestalt Theory Verbatim". Book by Frederick Salomon Perls, p. 33, 1969.
“I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter”
“I know that Instagram belongs to Facebook, so I cannot really stand on a political pedestal and say, "I'm against Facebook!" But I haven't wanted to be on Facebook from the beginning.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.”

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