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Just as I was looking for him to make my films, so was he too looking for me to work on my plays. And, except on the financial side, the relationship has been very rewarding.
Women of Owu (2006)
Unlike in Europe, for instance, the documents you need are often not there. You have to travel, go to the villages, consult with elders, dig into the archives of memory, and so on, to present credible characters and credible locations.
Women of Owu (2006)
Actually, to confess, most of the incidents in Cordelia were true stories that I either witnessed or were told to me by the people directly involved.
Women of Owu (2006)
My daughter, you won't like to hear this but my advice is- do like the reed in the bush. Stand and strut in good weather. But when it storms, learn also to bend.
Women of Owu (2006)
The skin that graces the king's shoulders, the leopard knows who supplied it. When mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because, each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!
Women of Owu (2006)
Once I give you permission to work on any script of mine, then I leave you free to carry out your work the way you think best.
Women of Owu (2006)
All good art is art devoted to beauty, yes, but beauty is what enhances our humanity, our capacity for love and empathy, for kindness and compassion for our fellow beings regardless of color or tribe or religion.
Women of Owu (2006)
It always depends on what audience you're addressing, if it's predominantly Yoruba-speaking, or mixed, or the elite class, or even physically challenged. So it's not the story that chooses the language; stories can be told in all languages. It's the context of the telling that decides.
Women of Owu (2006)
How many of the celebrated works of Soyinka, Achebe, Clark, Amadi, Imam, Sofola, Ezeigbo, Obafemi have you seen on the screen? This is one of the factors that distinguishes the work of Kelani in fact-this aspect that he prefers to work with writers and published texts.
Women of Owu (2006)
Don't speak like that, my child. Death is sweet, we think. But it is easier to talk of it, than to welcome it. We do not know what is on the other side, whether it is better or worse than here. Whereas even at its most bitter, life offers hope at least, which death does not.
Women of Owu (2006)
It was my son your wife bewitched and led us to this calamity
Women of Owu (2006)
The gods! Which gods! Do you still trust any of them after this? Or have you quickly forgotten what they told us about Anlugbua just now? No, women, there is no shelter anywhere but in ourselves! Each of us has become our own god.
Women of Owu (2006)
This, unfortunately, is where most of our films usually fail; that is, in insufficient research about the context of the story and the lazy assumption sometimes that a device used successfully in one film will naturally work in another, regardless of the setting.
Women of Owu (2006)
With drama it’s usually the political crisis and social issues that are going on and also for prose. There is this misconception that if people are not in politics they are not important and it’s not right. There are people who are doctors and engineers, who are inventing things to help society develop, yet we don’t give them prominence.
Women of Owu (2006)