M.I.A. Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.

  M.I.A.

  Years, White, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

  M.I.A.

  Teaching, College, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.

  M.I.A.

  Mom, Hair, Lunch

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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