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1625 Film director Quotes

I see a boundless future for any proaducer — male or female. If you have a story to tell, go ahead and find ways to tell it.

Future Story Tell Find ways
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We want the world to see Northern Nigeria as the beautifully breathtaking place it is, and the warmth of its people. The world should see that not all of the north is war-torn, and ridden by terrorism. We want the world to see that Nigeria is a beautiful place.

World Beautifully breathtaking Place
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The greatest pleasure of motherhood for me is the sure, pure, undiluted love of my children.

Greatest pleasure Motherhood Undiluted love
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My advice to women, who have problems with male colleagues taking them seriously at work or in a male-dominated field as mine, is to do what I do: ignore, pretend they don’t exist and just throw yourself into your work and do a damn good job of it. Due respect and regard will automatically follow.

Advice Women Male colleagues Work
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Do not rush into marriage. Take your time and make sure he’s your friend, he respects you, he’s responsible and above all, he reverences God.

Rush Marriage Time Friend
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Let’s live like tomorrow will never come. Let’s work like we want to feed the world. Love like you are loving yourself.

Live Tomorrow Never come Work
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Sometimes, we are punished for offences we never committed!

Sometimes Punished Offences Committed
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Live and let live, shine and allow others to shine as well. No man born of woman will have the power to obstruct your greatness.

Live Shine Others Born
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Stay on your lane and stay focused. Be consistent and be optimistic. You are envious of other people’s achievements, who says yours which is on the way isn’t bigger? Many achieved nothing because they left certainty.

Stay on Focused Consistent Optimist
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Road to greatness is never smooth. Path to success is always rough. The journey isn’t always attractive but refusal to embark on it amounts to failure.
Road Greatness Never smooth Success
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If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Tell Truth Start talking
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I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

Giving speech Nervous
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The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Love Making movies Peace Mind
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Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Pride Worst Sins Interesting ones
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When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

Working on Period Depression Keep busy
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I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

Believe Fate Think Own life
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I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

Pretty Philosophical Things Death
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When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.
Fall In love Young Life
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?

Audience Funny Fall
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Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

World Yearn to Believe Watching
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I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.

Trust Your life Happen Right time
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

Mother Confidence Anything Do
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The world Based on Fairness Human being
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If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Physical thing Funny Be real
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.

Good life Career Regret
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Love acting Fantasy Kind Realistic
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I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Tell you Religion Do unto Others
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

Write funny Wife laugh Right track
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I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
Funny Camera In life
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Never thought God Believe Devils
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When a nation loses respect for history, straying from the harbor of safety becomes inevitable.

Nation Loses History Safety
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The greatest tragedy of our time is ignorance.

The greatest Time Ignorance
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I work on subjects very close to my heart and film is a medium of expression for me.

Work Subject Heart Expression
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No matter how long, tough or rough a journey might be, when it comes to an end the distance becomes history.
No matter Journey Distance History
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The ideal director does not exist, every director is a work in progress…the older you get, the better your craft, unless you are a banana.

Ideal director Work In progress
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I like to call myself a mythmaker. I make myths for a living and people believe them.

Call myself Mythmaker Living Believe
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Sometimes our works are validated through awards, which are like a pat on the back.

Sometimes Validated Awards Pat
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I tell stories of people the world needs to hear. I am a projector of whatever they are trying to communicate and that is where my satisfaction lies.

Tell stories Hear Projector Satisfaction
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If one’s desire is to influence, money will always come. If the desire is just to go in and make money, the content will be watery.

Desire Influence Make money Watery
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The problem today is that our youths don’t want to learn or work without pay. That is why it will be very difficult for some of them to make the type of films we are making. If they only think about money, they won’t make a headway.

Problem today Youth Learn Pay
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In spite of the ups and downs, I kept going. In some quarters, things didn’t go well, but it didn’t matter since what I was doing was and is still making me happy.

Kept going Quarters Happy
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Appropriating technology in what you want to do, with the very limited resources available to you is exciting.
Appreciating technology Limited resources
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African women are not just housewives, they work. They are energetic and enterprising and we are proud of them…

Women Housewives Energetic Enterprising
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Greatness does not hide and cannot be hidden…
Greatness Hide Cannot Be hidden
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Do not fear the bigness of the challenge or situation. Pray for a heart big enough to confront it, and sure victory will be yours at the end…
Not fear Bigness Challenge Pray
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Spread your inner beauty. Speak good to life and spread goodness all around.

Spread Inner beauty Life Goodness
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I always compete against myself. I’m very passionate about what is happening in Africa. I believe it can change. I believe we can get the right leaders on board. I believe that things can go well. I believe that my films will be reference points for the future building of Africa.

Compete Passionate Happening Believe
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