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As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the world through the eyes of minorities or women.
- Raoul Peck
#Eyes
#Long
#White
#Women
#World
I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti as an adult, for me it was just to be somewhere else. I carried Haiti with me everywhere, but I also carried, you know, my youth in a public school in Brooklyn. It's part of who I am as well.
- Raoul Peck
#I Am
#Me
#Myself
#School
#Youth
We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem of this country was not just race, it was class. It was the economical situation of not only poor blacks but also the poor white part of the population and everything in between.
- Raoul Peck
#Country
#King
#Life
#Poor
#Situation
Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren't just seeing these films in California or Florida. They're seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood.
- Raoul Peck
#American
#Cinema
#Movies
#Power
#World
We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one murder, but for everything coming to us in the next 20, 30 years.
- Raoul Peck
#Anger
#Everything
#Long
#Organization
That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.
- Raoul Peck
#Country
#Doing
#Leadership
#Own
#Real
James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life.
- Raoul Peck
#Black
#Country
#Life
#Me
#My Life
My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that.
- Raoul Peck
#Father
#Film
#Photography
#Story
#Up
Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.
- Raoul Peck
#Error
#Film
#Just
#Layers
#Work
There's an apparent freedom, an apparent liberty of access to everything, but you can't use it because it's too much. Everything is at the same level. You even have fake news. You have to go through fake news to make up your mind. Facts and lies are treated as equal. There are even people who are against the idea of climate change.
- Raoul Peck
#Change
#Fake News
#Freedom
#Mind
#News
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
#Future
#Matter
#Me
#People
#Sometimes
I tend to believe that film can try to save what still can be saved, in terms of our histories, our memories. Because a lot of things are disappearing very quickly, things are changing. We are living in very quick times, and we have a new generation who basically know nothing about events 30 years ago.
- Raoul Peck
#Believe
#Generation
#Memories
#Nothing
That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.
- Raoul Peck
#Absurdity
#Now
#React
#Thinking
#Without
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.'
- Raoul Peck
#Create
#Feel
#I Can
#My Own
#Way
I came back to Haiti after the earthquake not to shoot a film, but to help and be a part of the rebuilding process, like all my fellow compatriots. I didn't come to shoot a film, but I became frustrated when I realized that my help was kind of useless. We all felt lost and helpless. And it's out of that frustration that I decided to shoot a film.
- Raoul Peck
#Earthquake
#Frustration
#Lost
#Process
I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.
- Raoul Peck
#Good
#Name
#Politeness
#Sometimes
#Truth
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.
- Raoul Peck
#Air
#Me
#Superstar
#Time
#Who
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.
- Raoul Peck
#Free
#Life
#Poor
#Voice
#World
Haiti is not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth.
- Raoul Peck
#Always
#Culture
#Haiti
#Rebirth
#World
We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.
- Raoul Peck
#Ignorance
#Lie
#Listening
#Speech
#Time
When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.
- Raoul Peck
#Anger
#Black
#Day
#Life
#Morning
When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated to give them a profit.
- Raoul Peck
#Great
#I Am
#Me
#Money
#Trust
It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.
- Raoul Peck
#Bad
#Fight
#History
#Information
#Past
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