Film

“I just felt that cinema should have a form of its own.”

“I would like to see films that take risks.”

“The first representations of Africans were made by others. So my cinema consists of trying to break down this false image.”

“The creative treatment of actuality.”

“So, montage is conflict.”

“Cinematography is a visual language, and it’s very global.”

“The power of cinema lies in its ability to cut across social barriers.”

“I want to play women in all their many facets.”

“I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye.”

“Once more I repeat that editing is the creative force of filmic reality, and that nature provides only the raw material with which it works.”

“Cinema has to reach out to these populations at the periphery.”

“I am a filmmaker, not an author.”

““The problem with film is that you can’t see it through to the end.””

“I want to give my actors a protective, safe haven, a feeling of protection so that they can do silly things and try different things.”

“I am firmly convinced that it is along this path that the great international art of cinematography will make its further progress.”

“What I’m interested in is not symbols, but images.”

“但，我自己承認是電影的忠僕，不惜為它作任何犧牲。”

“It’s man! One must try to express man adequately.”