I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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