In an interview with Radionow 95.3 FM, Oboli shared the difficulties she experienced at the beginning of her filmmaking journey, from giving out her screenplays at no monetary cost to attempting to direct her films.
“I was trading my scripts, I’d say you know what, just take it, don’t pay me. Just give me a role in the film. So, I started to do that. But then I’ll watch the film and I realised, Okay it’s not quite what I had in my head when I was writing cos I see what I’m writing, I write in pictures. I see what I’m writing, so when I’m watching the movie it’s so different. Not to say that it wasn’t good because no two directors will direct the same script in the same way. So I said to myself, if my stories are going to have my DNA, then I’m going to have to direct them myself,” she said.
She stressed that she felt apprehensive at the beginning of her directing journey. She wasn’t very confident but found some courage to pursue her dreams.
