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"No, no, no. There is no Nollywood anywhere. where is the Nollywood? No Nollywood, no industry, where is it, where can you get?. In America, there is Hollywood, it is visible, same as India, there is Bollywood but in Nigeria there is no industry and no Nollywood, so let us stop fooling ourselves."
"It is just people saying Nollywoood. Okay, where exactly can you take me to in Nigeria that is called Nollywood where movies are shot? Nowhere. It’s just a borrowed idea, there is no Nollywood because there is no industry."
"In America, they have associations as well as an industry, a physical Hollywood structure but what do we have here, just associations. We do not have an industry whatsoever, it’s only when there is an industry that we can begin to talk about Nollywood."
"No American producer or any foreign producer can come here and say I want to go to Nollywood or where will you take him, nowhere? What we have is Kanohood in the north, Enuguhoood, Southwesthood etc in the same country. In America, do they have Califorhood or NewYorkhood? We are not uniform, there is no unity at all in the movie business in Nigeria so there is no industry. We should face the reality and that is it."
"The problem we have is lack of unity. Until we start seeing ourselves as brothers and as one irrespective of where you come from. What we have instead is everybody doing what they like and this is so, because there is no regulatory body."
"Here, there is no code of conduct, no discipline. You’d see an actor collect money and won’t show up for the job, you can’t do that in Hollywood or Bollywood. If you misbehave over there, it is your personal problem and you get your lawyer and redeem yourself, but here it is not so."
So therefore we do not have an industry. We are hustlers trying to make ends meet!
Said Nigerian actor, Yomi Fash-Lanso to Nigeria's Tribune Adunola Oladapo.
source: alabamau2
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