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Ateyyat El Abnoudy Quotes

1939–2018 Egypt

Ateyyat El Abnoudy (November 26, 1939 – October 5, 2018), also known as Ateyyat Awad Mahmoud Khalil, was an Egyptian journalist, lawyer, actress, producer, and movie director.She was born in a small village along the Nile Delta in Egypt. El Abnoudy was considered to be one of the pioneering Arab female movie directors as her films inspired the works of many Arab women in the industry.

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I don’t want to be labelled a women’s filmmaker because I make films about life, and women are only a part of this life.

The camera is always on the same level as the people. I love their faces, I love them.

I look at life in a poetic way. I love to live and I think that poor people in my country are all doing their best to work and to create life.

When I start a film, I don’t think about its form.

No script, no actors, no direction. The cameraman follows the subject.

My task is to describe Egypt. Whenever I make a documentary, I deal with the social aspect.

The only way for me as a filmmaker to express my feelings for them was to make a film.

I am socially concerned but I don’t make political films. People have to think for themselves; I don’t make commentaries. I make provocative films: When you see a film, you start to think and then you do something – but I don’t tell you what to do.

My task is to describe Egypt.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ateyyat El Abnoudy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.