The only direction I can give to an actor, a good actor who knows his skills, is, ‘Here are those words. They’re yours. Make them yours. Don’t tell the text but be the text.’ That means you have to be the emotion of the text. Raoul Peck Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process. Raoul Peck Read Quote
There are no free rides nor short cuts in this world. ‘The Voice’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ are very poor examples to model your life with. Raoul Peck Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they’re not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don’t have any space left for your own thoughts. They give you a scripted reality. It’s an ideological tool. Raoul Peck Read Quote
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 Read Quote
