Cinema Quote by Wole Soyinka Download Open image “African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.” — Wole Soyinka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Film Makers Mere
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives with a… — Jihan El-Tahri Copy Share Image
I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are… — Dileep Rao Copy Share Image
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships. — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors,… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
