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 Read Quote
Whatever will happen has to be based on long-term policies and strategies of resistance. We had the Occupy Wall Street movement, but when they had to step up and organize in a more institutional way, the whole movement dissolved. Raoul Peck Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you asked me today if there’s a piece that I would do differently – there’s nothing. Regret happens with all my films. Raoul Peck Read Quote
I can’t tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, ‘Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.’ Raoul Peck Read Quote
I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct – sometimes you have to name the name. You can’t hide it. Politeness is good if it’s not hiding the truth. Raoul Peck Read Quote
James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life. Raoul Peck Read Quote
I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn’t until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school. Raoul Peck Read Quote
My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that. Raoul Peck Read Quote
Haiti is not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth. Raoul Peck Read Quote
