All kinds Quote by Elvis Mitchell

African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives with a…

— Jihan El-Tahri

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only…

— Abderrahmane Sissako

African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent. Nobody would…

— Elvis Mitchell

As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain…

— Juliet Asante

What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema.

— Jihan El-Tahri

I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

— Chika Anadu

In the past, I think my films that focused on African subjects struggled in the marketplace because of their subject matter.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I think cinema is needed throughout Africa, because we are lagging behind in the knowledge of our own history. I think we need to…

— Ousmane Sembene

When you film in Africa, it's almost like a character in and of itself because it is so beautiful and has this special magic…

— Naomie Harris

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country…

— Abderrahmane Sissako

When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like to make…

— Roger Ross Williams

Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing things that…

— Forest Whitaker