When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school, they made me believe that the two could not mix. Raoul Peck Read Quote
People don’t realize how black people, minorities, women as well, all their lives, they have had to make the effort to understand everybody else. All my life, I’ve known American culture very well. I probably know American literature more than the average American. Raoul Peck Read Quote
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time… not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America. Raoul Peck Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn’t mean we are right. Raoul Peck Read Quote
Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn’t think like you, he doesn’t dress like you, he doesn’t have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance. Raoul Peck Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity – why I create and not for whom. Raoul Peck Read Quote
