Quotes About Representation

I think it's important to play real people.

Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

When you have a party leadership that is out of touch with the rest of the country, then that's a real problem for the entire party.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

Regardless if I made it or not, I really wanted women's MMA to be a real thing.

Women are often written as one thing - the ingenue or the vamp - but real women are many things.

I've been lucky enough to play lots of real women - flawed, strong, independent women - and I love it.

People want to see real women on screen.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

The big takeaway I got from 'Thelma & Louise' was the reaction of women who had seen the movie being so profound, so different. It was overwhelming, and it made me realise how few opportunities we give women to feel excited and empowered by female characters, to come out of a movie pumped.

I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

I used to worry about the lack of roles for women over 40. But suddenly, everyone has realised it's interesting to have a drama with a woman at the centre of it.

In our film industry I've realised actresses are not respected at all.

I realised how rarely women are involved in all aspects of the music making, how rarely I've worked with female engineers. That became something that I started looking at as well. How many women can I bring into the project across the board.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

I am a social realist writer.

I've represented my country and played in the Premier League a long time so I am pretty realistic and confident in what I can bring.

My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.

I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that's beautiful, too.

I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my career, I've included realistic LGBT characters in my books. The idea that a gay Navy SEAL had to hide who he was in order to serve was a terrible one - and I made sure my readers knew that!

In terms of my looks in 'Brothers,' it's definitely not a glamourised look. It is very realistic.