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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/i-am-not-interested-only-in-telling-a-story-but-i-want-to-tell-it-my/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23e/haile-gerima-21623_accents_i-am-not-interested-only-in-telling-a-st_473629.jpg)

## More by Haile Gerima

> [When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/when-you-don-t-work-together-you-can-t-emerge-as-a-force-it-becomes/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/most-young-people-now-are-very-vulnerable-as-to-what-the-american/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/to-me-entertainment-is-really-the-new-plantation-it-s-the-new-sugar/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/tarantino-is-a-spoiled-little-white-kid-he-can-do-any-movie-he-wants/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/i-am-not-interested-only-in-telling-a-story-but-i-want-to-tell-it-my/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/most-young-people-make-films-to-be-accepted-to-be-discovered-when-in/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/i-really-do-not-care-what-the-white-world-is-doing-i-care-about-black/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/i-m-organizing-documentary-films-and-whenever-scriptwriting-gets-too/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/you-have-to-have-a-very-strong-cash-flow-for-a-film-to-really-stay-in/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/for-me-i-think-art-exists-in-a-cave-i-am-in-a-cave-i-have-my-own/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/success-is-really-when-you-create-a-space-a-piece-of-art-and-people/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/i-think-once-you-have-films-in-certain-festivals-you-begin-to-have/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/a-lot-of-young-black-people-in-america-and-even-in-africa-and-brazil/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/to-me-the-industry-has-always-said-that-the-lovers-and-haters-and/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

> [The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/the-true-story-is-that-black-people-need-to-tell-their-history-very/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

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