Mati Diop

Mati Diop (June 22, 1982) is a French actress and film director.

• I started to watch the ocean. I was not looking at it like I used to; it became like a grave.
  • On travelling to Senegal in 2008 to make a film in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” in The Guardian (2019 Nov 9)

• As a mixed [-race] girl, there’s always a visible and invisible side of you; there’s a place you inhabit and place you desert,” she says. “How does the place that you don’t live in influence you?
  • On her mixed race ancestry in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” in The Guardian (2019 Nov 9)

• My family history is made of migration; it’s something that’s part of my own complexity.
  • On her family background that includes an immigrant parent in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” in The Guardian (2019 Nov 9)

• When I started writing the script, I realized that I hadn’t really seen any film with a black couple that was worthy of Romeo and Juliet…And through Ada and Souleiman I wanted to relate a similar kind of tragic love, in the age of rampant capitalism.
  • On her film Atlantics in “‘Atlantics’: Mati Diop Explains How Her Acclaimed Debut Confronts African Identity” in IndieWire (2019 Nov 8)