Quotes by Haile Gerima

Haile Gerima

A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.

America

Ideas

People

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don’t see that much.

Cinema

Independent

Movement

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I’m not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

Art

Powerful

Thinking

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don’t want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

Hollywood

Mold

Style

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

Black

People

White

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

Pay The Price

People

Thinking

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

Festivals

Names

Thinking

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent filmmakers, it’s always good to try the international market because it doesn’t have the same kind of baggage.

Independent

Names

Thinking

I’m organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don’t have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

Documentary Films

Editing

Matter

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you’re not worth a human being in my view.

Humans

Ifs

Views

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Art

Black

Care

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Cinema

Conquer The World

Cotton

Devastated

Documentary Films

Doe

Drama

Editing

Festivals

Film

Historical

Hollywood

Hook

Humans

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Independent

Issues

Kids

Kind

Lonely

Long

Matter

May

Mistake

Mold

Movement

Names

Passion

Pay The Price

People

Powerful

Reality

School

Self

Space

Strong

Struggle

Style

Successful

Thinking

Three

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Quotes by Haile Gerima

Haile Gerima

A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don’t see that much.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I’m not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don’t want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent filmmakers, it’s always good to try the international market because it doesn’t have the same kind of baggage.

I’m organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don’t have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you’re not worth a human being in my view.

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