You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichรฉd kind of film that's going to be successful.
Haile GerimaMost, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge.
Haile GerimaWhen you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
Haile GerimaMost young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?
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