“Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.”

Of course, technology is very important now. It’s there, its available. It’s there to be use however you see fit.

If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that’s not what religion is.

I think that people don’t necessary fight with or aren’t necessarily beaten by weapons, but it’ through their minds and what they think they can do.

I’m the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn’t make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it.

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what’s important for me.

Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It’s universal.

It’s primarily through these websites that they do their recruiting. But it’s not technology that makes them that way.

You can use it and the jihadist can use it. In their case they have been very effective at making use of technology, particularly with websites.

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you’d want to suggest someplace, but there’s no place. I wouldn’t know where to send a student to study.