Banned Quote by Nadine Gordimer

Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that…

— John Kani

I did not leave television to go to the movies. In television, they banned me.

— Amit Sadh

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa,…

— Alice Krige

If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre. But the…

— John Kani

For years, I said I didn't want to do television. It was just a hard 'no.' I didn't want to read anything. It didn't…

— Ari Graynor

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

— Zola Budd

I didn't really like being on television at all.

— Natalia Kills

In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to organize resistance…

— Ken Loach

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written…

— Gary Sherman

No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.

— Billy Eichner

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

— Maria Semple

I write about the human condition, as a South African. I sometimes see South Africa with the spectacles of the past and there will…

— John Kani