Cinema Quote by Tedros Adhanom

By any means necessary, I am for Africa.

— Kola Boof

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

— Mel Smith

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

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

— Shirley Temple

After 'Homeland,' I was offered a lot of very authoritarian, square, angry boss types, but I wanted to do something different. Casting directors are…

— David Harewood

I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride,

— Fatou Bensouda

As soon as President Bush announced PEPFAR at the State of the Union, I had already been working in Africa for about five or…

— Deborah Birx

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.

— Nicky Oppenheimer

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.

— Forest Whitaker