Raoul Peck

America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent…

— 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

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

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

— 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

When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I…

— Raoul Peck

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

— Raoul Peck

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

— Raoul Peck

Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went…

— Raoul Peck

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

— 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

You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games,…

— 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

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

— 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

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

Whatever will happen has to be based on long-term policies and strategies of resistance. We had the Occupy Wall Street movement, but…

— 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

[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back…

— 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

A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is.…

— Raoul Peck

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

— Raoul Peck

James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or…

— Raoul Peck

You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of room in…

— 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