Haitian - Director | 1953 -
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.
Raoul Peck
FuturePeopleMeYouSometimesAsk
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.
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I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.
MusicMoneyThinkSometimesProject
I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.'
StoryFeelI CanCreateWayEmotion
I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go?
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When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school, they made me believe that the two could not mix.
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I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me, as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me.
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I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America.
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There are no free rides nor short cuts in this world. 'The Voice' and 'The Bachelorette' are very poor examples to model your life with.
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I just hope that my films will survive me.
HopeMeSurviveWillJustFilms
You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games, and they paid 30 years of their lives because of that gesture. And you're telling me a superstar who put one fist in the air is a revolutionary? But that's the superficiality of this time.
TimeMeYouGamesThirtyAir
Whatever will happen has to be based on long-term policies and strategies of resistance. We had the Occupy Wall Street movement, but when they had to step up and organize in a more institutional way, the whole movement dissolved.
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