Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
If you asked me today if there's a piece that I would do differently - there's nothing. Regret happens with all my… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school,… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I tend to believe that film can try to save what still can be saved, in terms of our histories, our memories.… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality.… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I came back to Haiti after the earthquake not to shoot a film, but to help and be a part of the… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent of the… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
If you asked me today if there's a piece that I would do differently - there's nothing. Regret happens with all my films. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die? — Raoul Peck Copy Share
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games, and they… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
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