Quotes About Representation

It's going to take a while before we see a real shift in the students and the dancers that are going into professional companies because it takes so many years of training, but I do think that there's a new crop of dancers, of minority dancers that are entering into the ballet world.

It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, 'What was it like to work for this man?'

For so many years, women and people who aren't white have had to be undeniable to get into line-ups.

If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.

Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.

The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points to the gaps and inadequacies of realism, but does not question the legitimacy of its claims to represent reality. The concept of "suspension of disbelief', that beloved criterion of positivist criticism supposedly serving to establish the legitimacy of the fantastic, confirms this hegemony.

A film is a system, not of meanings, but of signifiers.

the downtrodden may yearn to be heard, but if a voice from a more privileged sphere speaks on their behalf, they'll roll their eyes and jeer at the voice's accent.

After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover...in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that possesses revolutionary force.

All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning -- not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.

In the seminar room, Helen had lit the chalice and given a short speech about not focusing on one kind of minister—a man, a woman, a person of color, or someone within a certain age range—when the person who most needed to hear this slipped in.

la forma humanoide con simetría bilateral, la misma forma que utiliza Hollywood para representar a los alienígenas en el espacio, no tiene por qué aplicarse necesariamente a toda la vida inteligente.

The reign of imagology begins where history ends

No tiene cada época sus símbolos?, ¡Bien, pero lo interesante es quién ha sido elegido para convertirse en símbolo!

los símbolos, como sabemos, son intocables

The important thing was not what the conversation was but what it represented.

Inflation is taxation without representation.

On the contrary, the inflation itself is partly a response to the reaction. As it has become politically less attractive to vote higher taxes to pay for higher spending, legislators have resorted to financing spending through inflation, a hidden tax that can be imposed without having been voted, taxation without representation. That is no more popular in the twentieth century than it was in the eighteenth.

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.