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Raoul Peck
Raoul Peck
Haitian Director
Born: 1953
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Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
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
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We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap. Raoul Peck
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That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected. Raoul Peck
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Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren't just seeing these films in California or Florida. They're seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood. Raoul Peck
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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
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When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac. Raoul Peck
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I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day. It was always, for me, to go back to the fundamentals. Raoul Peck
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James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life. Raoul Peck
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We ignore our own history. We ignore all these values and valuable people who really changed everything, who sacrificed their own lives for a better America. Raoul Peck
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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
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You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die? Raoul Peck
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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
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I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.' Raoul Peck
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I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go? Raoul Peck
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When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school, they made me believe that the two could not mix. Raoul Peck
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I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America. Raoul Peck
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I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom. Raoul Peck
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I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge. Raoul Peck
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Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error. Raoul Peck
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If you asked me today if there's a piece that I would do differently - there's nothing. Regret happens with all my films. Raoul Peck
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I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation. Raoul Peck
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That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now. Raoul Peck
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That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person. Raoul Peck
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My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that. Raoul Peck
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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
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I came back to Haiti after the earthquake not to shoot a film, but to help and be a part of the rebuilding process, like all my fellow compatriots. I didn't come to shoot a film, but I became frustrated when I realized that my help was kind of useless. We all felt lost and helpless. And it's out of that frustration that I decided to shoot a film. Raoul Peck
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