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Raoul Peck

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

– Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

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

Raoul Peck

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

Raoul Peck

To put it simply, as a black man, I started watching films at the age of six, and I’ve since seen the bad guys changing race – between the African savages, to the Native Americans, and then the blacks and the Arabs and the Chinese and the Vietnamese. Look at ‘Rambo’: it’s exactly that.

– Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn’t until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school.

– Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

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

Raoul Peck

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct – sometimes you have to name the name. You can’t hide it. Politeness is good if it’s not hiding the truth.

– Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

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

Raoul Peck

That’s what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

– Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

That’s the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

– Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

There’s an apparent freedom, an apparent liberty of access to everything, but you can’t use it because it’s too much. Everything is at the same level. You even have fake news. You have to go through fake news to make up your mind. Facts and lies are treated as equal. There are even people who are against the idea of climate change.

– Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

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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