Raoul Peck

That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

— Raoul Peck

Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.

— Raoul Peck

I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.

— Raoul Peck

I just hope that my films will survive me.

— Raoul Peck

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

— Raoul Peck

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.

— Raoul Peck

When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated…

— Raoul Peck

We ignore our own history. We ignore all these values and valuable people who really changed everything, who sacrificed their own lives…

— Raoul Peck

Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is…

— Raoul Peck

You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

— Raoul Peck

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

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

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

— Raoul Peck

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

— Raoul Peck

I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had…

— Raoul Peck

It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way…

— Raoul Peck

I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti…

— Raoul Peck

[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm…

— Raoul Peck

When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school,…

— Raoul Peck

As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to…

— Raoul Peck

I remember a time when you were protesting on the street together with your professors, with your union, with your school organizations.…

— Raoul Peck

“You face the reality, whether it’s hopeful or hopeless. What’s your alternative? To lie down and die? Sometimes people ask me, are…

— Raoul Peck

You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the…

— Raoul Peck

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

I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties,…

— Raoul Peck

James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His…

— Raoul Peck

I came back to Haiti after the earthquake not to shoot a film, but to help and be a part of the…

— Raoul Peck

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and…

— Raoul Peck

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

— Raoul Peck

If there is something that determines my motivation in the work I do, it's the sense of injustice.

— Raoul Peck

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

— Raoul Peck

“All I want is to be able to stand in front of my boy like my father never was able to do…

— Raoul Peck

Haiti is not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth.

— Raoul Peck

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

— Raoul Peck

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

— Raoul Peck

You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die?

— Raoul Peck

My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had…

— Raoul Peck

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

— Raoul Peck

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

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

— Raoul Peck