Jihan El-Tahri Quotes

#1. If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.

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#2. There's always criticism in any process and I think that's a healthy thing.

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#3. Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand.

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#4. What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema.

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#5. I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It's not about, oh that's what you should be doing.

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#6. I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.

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