Chika Anadu

I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.

— Chika Anadu

I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

— Chika Anadu

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

— Chika Anadu

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

— Chika Anadu

I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.

— Chika Anadu

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

— Chika Anadu

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

— Chika Anadu

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

— Chika Anadu

I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

— Chika Anadu

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like…

— Chika Anadu

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can…

— Chika Anadu

Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You'll notice that…

— Chika Anadu

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films…

— Chika Anadu

There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done…

— Chika Anadu

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would…

— Chika Anadu

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things -…

— Chika Anadu

While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of…

— Chika Anadu

I was having tea with a guy I was introduced to, about the possibility of working with him at his production company.…

— Chika Anadu