article_snippet: (CNN)It's probably the most important advice Nigerian movie superstar Ramsey Nouah ever received:
article_snippet: CNN's African Voices caught up with Ramsey Nouah to talk about Nigeria's film industry and present Ramsey Nouah with the questions you sent via the #AskRamsey and #CNNAfrica hashtags.
article_snippet: How have you seen Nollywood change and grow over the years?
article_snippet: There have been several phases in Nollywood, like in everything in life.
article_snippet: We started off Nollywood almost like making bread out of stone; there was nothing, no investment, no structure, nothing on the ground to actually help Nigeria's film industry
article_snippet: but I've been in Nigeria's film industry for 25 years, the present government ever spoke about Nigeria's film industry.
article_snippet: he gave We audience, he listened to We, he gave several grants to help Nigeria's film industry, he sent so many of the practitioners outside to big film schools ...
article_snippet: But now there is the cinema, which is growing drastically in Nigeria and that has really helped bring back Nollywood.
article_snippet: I wanted Nollywood to look like Hollywood and Bollywood, I wanted Nollywood to have that appeal ... and at some point in my industry that appeal wasn't happening.
article_snippet: Ramsey Nouah: I am spearheading the "New Nollywood," so it's more of getting a good production out and getting a good production out is quite capital intensive.
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