Abderrahmane Sissako quotes
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“Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.”
-- Abderrahmane SissakoSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.”
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“Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's universal.”
-- Abderrahmane SissakoSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.”
-- Abderrahmane SissakoSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people.”
-- Abderrahmane SissakoSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.”
-- Abderrahmane SissakoSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.”
-- Abderrahmane SissakoSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“Of course, technology is very important now. It's there, its available. It's there to be use however you see fit. You can use it and the jihadist can use it. In their case they have been very effective at making use of technology, particularly with websites. It's primarily through these websites that they do their recruiting. But it's not technology that makes them that way.”
-- Abderrahmane SissakoSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do.”
-- Abderrahmane SissakoSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
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“Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.”
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“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”
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“It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.”
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