Cinema Quote 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Haile Gerima

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

— 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,…

— 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…

— Haile Gerima

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Haile Gerima

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

— Haile Gerima