Abderrahmane Sissako Quotes, Important Quotes, Stories Quotes

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

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I like it when stories are left open.

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You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

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The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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