They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so Id be sure to have some dough to support my family. – Francis Ford Coppola

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as Tarzan and in programs such as Ramar of the Jungle and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. – Henry Louis Gates