Euzhan Palcy Quotes

#1. My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.

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#2. Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.

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#3. I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story.

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#4. There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.

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#5. 'Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere.

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#6. When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.

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#7. I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.

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#8. I've been to Cuba many times.

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#9. Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.

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#10. In the days when I wasn't being taken seriously, I wore long skirts - very conservative. But now, I dress any way I want to.

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#11. My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.

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#12. When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

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#13. As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing.

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