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“Cinema is a permanent night school.”

Source: Masterclass, Cannes Film Festival, 15 May 2005

Context Explaining to a festival audience why he turned from novels to film: to reach Africans who could not read and to teach through images.

Portrait of Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane SembèneSenegal · 1923–2007
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