Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to… — 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 I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have… — 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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