The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
George Stanley Nsamba’s Liteside
Any three things that we don’t know about you?
I love people regardless of who they are. With love comes patience and understanding. I am also a hardworking man because I believe that nothing in this world can be attained for free.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Happiness is when the person next door is happy. It’s selfish to be happy when the other person is hurting; happiness is communal and not a single person’s job.
What is your greatest fear?
My greatest fear is working every single day to make people happy only to realise one day that I am not really happy.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I am too patient and sometimes it’s really bad because some people will take you for granted.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Dishonesty; I prefer someone hurting me with the truth than a lie.
Which living person do you most admire?
My mother Vicky Aryenyo; She is a fighter and so selfless.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Art pieces; whenever I move and fall in love with art pieces, I’ve got to buy.
What is the greatest thing you have ever done?
My film career had so many rejections but my mother believed in me. Many people kept pointing to other alternatives but I kept going and odds didn’t deter me. I still fought through until 2015, when I had my first break through of ‘Crafts; the value of life’.
What is your current state of mind?
I am happy.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
The parliament is way too big for a small country and spends too much time discussing things that don’t translate into anything tangible. We spend too many resources facilitating it and yet it’s covered with selfishness. If resources were allocated the right way and fruitful ideas discussed, this country would be in a better place.
What does being powerful mean to you?
Looking beyond another person’s faults and living not in the moment but in time.
On what occasion do you lie?
I am the biggest liar that you will ever meet because every single film starts off with a lie that translates into a story.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
I am totally okay with the way I look.
Which living person do you most despise?
Anyone that neglects their parental roles.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Love and patience; it takes patience to raise a child and tolerate a man.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Love and with it, comes patience and understanding.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
I don’t love my mother by default but because she is my world and one person who believed in me when everyone lost hope in me.
When and where were you happiest?
The day I walked through a crowd of people only to face my mother smiling at me after a long illness in 1999. When my first award for ‘The dummy team’ won at the Silicon Valley short African film festival as best narrative short film.
Which talent would you most like to have?
I want to re-awaken my boxing talent though not as a career.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Nothing that I have thought about.
Where would you most like to live?
I wouldn’t live anywhere else on this planet; Uganda has very loving people, good weather and food.
What is your most treasured possession?
I treasure family and friends.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
I recall the nights when our mother lost hope and gave us up for death; it was a very low moment for us. I wouldn’t wish any child to reach such a point .
What is your favorite occupation?
Cinematography; I like to be behind the camera.
What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty, loyalty and having their back.
Who are your favorite writers?
I would be torn between Simon Oliver Sinek and Jim Rohn; their writings teach a lot about re-inventing ourselves in life and thinking differently at the different ages.
Who is your hero of fiction?
Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman; I like how they re-invent themselves in every new role.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Tupac Shakur has had more influence on me than anyone else; I have followed his poetry and live by one of his quotes ‘I am not saying I am going to change the world but I guarantee you that I will spark the brains that will change the world’. I am glad to be one of those brains.
What is your greatest regret?
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
How would you like to die?
At home with my family and friends around.
What is your motto?
Live the life you can so that you don’t regret tomorrow.
