Haile Gerima Quotes
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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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I have a great office.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.
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I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.
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In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.
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...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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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.
