I just hope that my films will survive me. Raoul Peck More Quotes by Raoul Peck More Quotes From 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. Raoul Peck important real country Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject. Raoul Peck dissertation tweet important Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes you out of the dream - or out of the nightmare. Raoul Peck cinema dream reality The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history. Raoul Peck phrases giving two Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well. Raoul Peck leader years thinking 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 lie feel you time 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 doing real leadership country 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 fight you history past We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right. Raoul Peck right view point-of-view people 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 cinema power people world 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 you women long 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 you freedom change people When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac. Raoul Peck day thought see father If there is something that determines my motivation in the work I do, it's the sense of injustice. Raoul Peck something injustice motivation work 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 myself me father Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but also of yourself, you know. Raoul Peck rest yourself you world I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day. It was always, for me, to go back to the fundamentals. Raoul Peck day me moment news We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent. Raoul Peck you innocent power today I remember a time when you were protesting on the street together with your professors, with your union, with your school organizations. Everybody was in the streets. Now, everybody is kept alone in his box, in this fragile condition, afraid of losing tenure. Raoul Peck alone you together time 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 need anger organization long
