I am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me.
If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.
I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It's not about, oh that's what you should be doing.
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 lot of suspicion because we're so inhabited by the notion of being colonized, the post-colonial thought that someone wants us to do something that is their interest and not ours and even it's not true, there's the suspicion of it like where is this going?
I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.
There's always criticism in any process and I think that's a healthy thing.
Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand.
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.
We lived in a very modest house. My father drove modest cars, we didn't travel, we didn't do any of the things that, were commensurate with the kind of income that he was making. So we got this kind of, double message, which was, y'know, "You work hard and you make as much money as you possibly can, but you don't spend any money. " And you see how well I learned that lesson.
You can't make someone be your best friend.
Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.