“I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.” WorldYearsCountryFormFeltHappenedIgnoranceParticularHappeningsYears AgoCirclesSuperficialSinkingHappening Again Author:Raoul Peck
“It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.” WayCountryImaginationConsequenceHollywoodImpactRawness Author: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 to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.” GivingDifferentCountryAgeWantedFilmYoungReflectionHollywoodKillingTricksInnocentEducateYoung AgeWayneAmbivalence Author:Raoul Peck
“[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.” FirstsSaidImportantRealCountryPresidentImportant QuestionsReal Questions Author:Raoul Peck
