Quotes About Belonging

I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's different, it's hard to find your place.

I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.

Aladdin' was one of the few things that I watched as a kid where I was like, 'Oh, that guy looks like me and has a similar culture to mine.'

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

It's only a house when it's filled with people you love.

The Rotterdam Film Festival really makes you feel like part of a film family.

The state of Kerala and Malayalam film industry has been like a home to me ever since I started my career as an actress.

I feel extremely secure to be part of the film industry.

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

We've been fighting our whole lives to say we're just human beings like everyone else. When we start separating ourselves in our work, that doesn't help the cause. I've heard it for years: 'How do you feel being a black filmmaker?' I'm not a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker. I'm a black man, I have black children. But I'm just a filmmaker.

When I grew up where I grew up, things were very, very different, and nobody had a filter. And that's what brought us together.

Napoli belongs to the city and to the fans. If this city sees the team reach the final, it will be a source of pride.

One of my favorite Finals was actually Detroit vs. Los Angeles, because it was home and home for me, personally. It was like my childhood home and my second home.

Family - it's all about family. Families feeling safe and finding your safe place.

When I found stand-up, it was like finding home.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.