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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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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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 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 had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.
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With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.
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I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.
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There's always stories about cute girls in the gym, I'm just not one of those people.
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Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach.
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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.
