Actor, director and producer Sunny Alli has dismissed Nollywood's obsession with witchcraft and money-ritual storylines, saying he refuses to write scenes he cannot verify actually happened.

The filmmaker, known for Omo Ghetto, Lagos Girls, Omo Olè and Okan Soso, made the comments on a recent episode of Oyinmomo on YouTube. His argument was simple: if nobody can prove something happened, it has no business being in his scripts.

Witch meetings top his list of banned storylines. He questioned the specifics people claim to know about these gatherings, like the red clothes witches supposedly wear, when no one has ever produced a witness.

"Who went there?" he asked. "Do they rent a hall?"

For Alli, realism means writing about things with actual precedent, like hit-and-run accidents, rather than folklore nobody can trace back to a source.

He turned the same skepticism on money rituals, a Nollywood staple. His issue is with the mechanics of the story: if a demon is handing someone cash, where does the demon get it from?

"Does the demon have a printing machine? Will it steal money from the Central Bank of Nigeria or a Bureau de Change?" he asked.

According to him, believers in the myth cannot hold their ground when pressed on this and tend to fall back on a second explanation: that the money arrives through a contract the person never bid for.

"I asked them, and they were confused, so they came up with another myth," he said. "I love realistic scripts. I do not believe in money rituals."

Alli also touched on football betting, a habit he says he has walked away from.

"I used to bet before. I mean football betting, but God does not support it. We thank God it is now in the past," he said.