Parent Quote by Omar Sy

As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And…

— Forest Whitaker

I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such an awful,…

— Elvis Mitchell

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

I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

— Martin Freeman

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

— Paul Robeson

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to…

— Yaya Toure

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies…

— Henry Louis Gates

I would love to do a film in Africa.

— Judi Shekoni

If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.

— Christopher Priest

That's my big goal, to represent for the Nigerians and their parents because they are truly characters. My mom is, for sure.

— Ego Nwodim

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

— The Weeknd

Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France,…

— Nelson Mandela