Rege-Jean Page : (7)

" It’s just so much fun when you’re working with folks who are not just at the top of their game but reinventing the game. It’s like a whole new machine. " - Rege-Jean Page

" ‘Roots’ was a massive responsibility because it is this foundational text in the States and it also resonates fairly strongly with pretty much any black community globally. " - Rege-Jean Page

" As Black people, we’re very used to empathizing with the world through white people’s eyes, because they’re the protagonists. I know what it’s like to look at the world and empathize with Superman because I spent my whole life doing that. " - Rege-Jean Page

" I have always found it curious that Americans consider Roots’ an American story. I first watched it growing up in Zimbabwe, and I naturally saw it as an African story. " - Rege-Jean Page

" You can put things in prose and understand them one way, and then there’s understanding it by knowing how it feels. Things aren’t real until you can feel that, until you can empathize with them. That’s what protagonists do in books. " - Rege-Jean Page

" As British people, we don’t often face what our role in history is. We’re only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation. " - Rege-Jean Page

" It’s not always about reaching the widest audience. It’s about how you reach people, and in that sense, there’s no difference between a little room in a back basement with ten people if you hit them hard enough, there’s a nobility to reaching ten people. They are not irrelevant because they are less than 10,000. " - Rege-Jean Page