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Quote by David Shapiro

“I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.”

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David Shapiro, born on January 2, 1947, is a renowned poet whose works are known for their unique style and profound emotional expression. His poetry has won him numerous literary awards and has had a significant impact on contemporary poetry. more

“It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.”

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Author:Haile Gerima

“You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.”

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Author:Haile Gerima

“There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.”

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Author:Haile Gerima

“I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.”

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Author:Lawrence Lessig

“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 I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.”

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Author:Haile Gerima

“There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.”

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Author:Haile Gerima

“To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.”

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Author: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, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.”

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Author:Haile Gerima

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