Call her an optimist.

In an interview with Fidelis Mbah of BBC to promote her new film Amina, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde responded positively to the question: “Nollywood movies have over the years received knocks for low quality and poor scripts. Has anything changed lately?”

“Oh absolutely. If you watch most movies out of Nollywood in the past three, four years—perhaps in 2006, consistently—most of the big-budget movies are what they are: big-budget movies. They can compete with any other movie from anywhere else around the world—even Hollywood.”

Later, Mbah said: “Judging by international recognition and awards, Nollywood film industry doesn’t seem to be doing so well, despite the number of movies produced almost on daily basis.”

“Really? You think we’re not doing very well? It’s ‘supposedly’ the third largest movie industry in the world,” replied Omotola, raising her fingers to denote quotes for the word “supposedly.”

“And we’re barely just 16 years old,” she continued. “I think that’s very well—extremely well, actually.”

However, the 34-year-old actress, who had her breakthrough with 1995′s Moral Inheritance, recognizes that Nollywood is not “perfect,” placing its limitations on its foundation in a “Third World country” that is “still growing.”

“We’re doing the best we humanly can, and I think we have grown tremendously,” said Omotola, citing Amina as an example.

Amina, a joint Nigerian-British production directed by Christian Ashiaku, is a psychological human drama. Omotola stars as the titular character: a young woman who suffers a mental breakdown due to a series of unfortunate events. The world premiere took place on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at London’s Empire Cinemas in Leicester Square.

http://www.nollyscope.com/news/omotola-nollywood-can-compete-with-hollywood/

In your dreams.

With all the pastors/spiritual sh*t, part1.2.3..7, fake stunts, and Unnecessary scene/dragging

That's so true.
They will even beat hollywood hands down.

Only and only if we are talking of Ritual scenes and poor picture quality.

In Hollywood, Tom Cruise gets paid for one movie what all the Movie producers in Nollywood can only put together in 5 years to shoot thousands of movies. Omotola wake up O, this is no longer make believe.

fittty: In your dreams.

my thought's exactly.

bla bla bla>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>!
#omotola, abeg wake up as i've jst did

She is a joker with some majority of yeye films they produce in Nollywood, even when the story line is written you can predict what will happen in sequences of the whole film.

Nollywood is prolly the best in Africa n its is improving but I'm sorry, nollywood cant compete with hollywood. Nollywood still has a long way to go.

Omotola should stop taking cheap drugs, it an insult comparing Hollywood with Nollywood

Oh, really? U've gotta be kidding me madam.

acidtalk: That's so true.
They will even beat hollywood hands down.

Only and only if we are talking of Ritual scenes and poor picture quality.

YOU BE EBA, SO YOU NO LIKE BETTER THING.

Omotola is a diva anytime. If you guys think its easy to shoot film in Nigeria just raise a camera up and see how horrible our environment is. They are just trying their best. I believe one day everything will change gradually. As she said they are only 16years old. Do you know how old Hollywood is. I think they started 1886, den Nigerians were still walking around nak ed.

Dream on babe!

ABEG MAKE PERSON ASK AM IF SHE DON WATCH THE AVENGERS

NA YEAR 2099 WE GO EVEN NEAR THAT KIND FILM.

She wan steal am? D money hollywood spends on makin a film alone,nt 2 even talk abt d stunts n d 5D video camra dey use in shootin... Omotola com dey whine n dey gif hersef wif d so calld nollywood stars hope of competing wif d Hollywood actors... Mayb in next generation...

This is laughable. I would like to see their film villages first!

I have a dream, a song to sing.

After readin dis I started feelin sleepy again. Maybe d day we stop usin knock-out as Ak-47 or we dodge bullets like Neo in matrix, we can talk abt d competition. Beer tym

Seriously, I fink she ws sleepin wen she said dat

uihebom: Omotola is a diva anytime. If you guys think its easy to shoot film in Nigeria just raise a camera up and see how horrible our environment is. They are just trying their best. I believe one day everything will change gradually. As she said they are only 16years old. Do you know how old Hollywood is. I think they started 1886, den Nigerians were still walking around nak ed.

Even movies hollywood acted 100yrs ago, naija neva reach dat level. Hollywood considers a lot of tinx while actin, but here, we no send.

Maybe she meant GhanaWood,certainly not hollywood.

All of you hating on Nollywood,you all need your brain checked,

Me think Nollywood is better than Hollywood in the sense you learn something from nollywood than Hollywood,
what the hell will your children learn from spartacus Or merlin?,but a geniune African movie(although might not have quality pictures)have something for our children
My two naira

Too Much/Over Excess GARRI on Omotola Mind............................Yawnnnnn

Until a ghost stop looking both left and right before crossing the road

Yes we know that ''as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he'' but nollywood doesnt think, talkless of being what she claims. She's hallucinating. Someone jolt her back to reality! ! !

nollywood can compete with hollywood....and a volkswagen is much better than a rolls royce

Omotola ,if i slaaaaap u eh !

You should have thought about that before naming it Nollywood(coined from Hollywood) Why not Nollynaija
Have Nollywood produced any scientific movie close to Avarter, matrix or even gladiator, Spartacus etc. We recently saw Tupac performing as if he is alive with the use of Hologram, all these are Hollywood. They invested alot in making a movie, research and so on, But our NollyBush just rush production just to start selling! In Nollywood movies, just the names of the actors in staring gives u the end of the movie. Omo.T use your head o! Hollywood don go far and we never near self!!!I dey

Omosexyy,were u drunk when u said all these? U better wake up and face reality,than living in a foolss paradise.we cant compete with common indian or mexican film,muchmore Hollywood.

Why should you compare Death,with Sleep?

The fact remains that we are still miles apart from Hollywood. Remember, the film on Mohammed that caused uprising in the Arab world was termed as a "low budget film". That film gulped between $2-3million. That is what a low budget film in Hollywood is.

Na wash.