Cinema is magic in the service of dreams. Djibril Diop Mambety More Quotes by Djibril Diop Mambety More Quotes From 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 messengers visionaries roles 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 simple believe people
