I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima Black Copy Share Image
I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. — Haile Gerima Certain Copy Share Image
There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film. — Haile Gerima Cinema 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 Can do 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 -… — Haile Gerima Art 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,… — Haile Gerima Accents Copy Share Image
Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the… — Haile Gerima Cinema 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 Destruction Copy Share Image
When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to… — Haile Gerima Black 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… — Haile Gerima Art Copy Share Image
To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and… — Haile Gerima Black Copy Share Image
A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story,… — Haile Gerima America 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… — Haile Gerima Black 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… — Haile Gerima American film 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… — Haile Gerima Accepted Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Black Copy Share Image
I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story. — Haile Gerima Pay Copy Share Image
If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view. — Haile Gerima Freedom Copy Share Image
There has to be consistent emergence of two or three films - narratively, stylistically, consistently demonstrating you are here to go on.… — Haile Gerima Bases Copy Share Image
You have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. If you do it for other causes, other reasons,… — Haile Gerima Busy Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may… — Haile Gerima Being successful Copy Share Image
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much. — Haile Gerima Cinema Copy Share Image
The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what… — Haile Gerima Action 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… — Haile Gerima Advertising 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… — Haile Gerima Baggage Copy Share Image
It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook… — Haile Gerima Affinity Copy Share Image
There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a… — Haile Gerima Certain 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,… — Haile Gerima Busy Copy Share Image
![“When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.” quote by Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/905/haile-gerima-21623_black_when-my-film-went-to-the-venice-film-fes_1682077.jpg)
![“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 enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.” quote by Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f2/haile-gerima-21623_art_for-me-i-think-art-exists-in-a-cave-i-am_1329621.jpg)
