A Quote by Haile Gerima

I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

Haile Gerima

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Haile Gerima
Ethiopian - Filmmaker
Born: March 4, 1946

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Bruce Jackson

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Chris Rock

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Mano Khalil

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Phil Morris

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