Africans Quote by Uzodinma Iweala

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

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They…

— John Wayne

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

— Ti West

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong…

— Sergio Leone

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

As a filmmaker it's a dream to make a western.

— Ti West

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

— Taiye Selasi

People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer…

— Robert Lopez

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own…

— Ridley Scott

When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is…

— Caroline Lawrence

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how,…

— Chris Abani