Mambety Quotes & Sayings

Cinema is magic in the service of dreams. — Djibril Diop Mambety

The 'Pan' script made it to the Black List in 2013. — Jason Fuchs

One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds. — Djibril Diop Mambety

The word griot ... is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society ... the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future. — Djibril Diop Mambety

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration. — David Mamet

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale. — James Gunn

It's in my blood, as magic is in yours." His mouth is still smiling, but his tone is somber. "I couldn't stop writing even if I wanted to. — Elora Bishop

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings. — Oswald Chambers

You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, ... And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled, what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and - well, we iron things out together, that's all. — J.D. Salinger

It was chilly weather. Through the window the rays of the sun touched my feet, and the slight warmth was very welcome. It was almost eight o'clock, and the early pedestrians were returning home with their heads covered. — Rabindranath Tagore

I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such an awful, condescending movie that debases African participation, and anything I can do to shift that and draw attention to rich and widely varied films that come from there- because there's all kinds of filmmakers from Senegal, you have Mambety, and Haroun with Grigris. — Elvis Mitchell

A father's suspicion...' she began.
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'


~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold