Quotes About Representation

You're going to get different kinds of animation for different kinds of audiences. Traditionally, adult animation has been for the young male audience. There's no reason why that should be.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.

I am very happy to be nominated by the Congress party to contest the Lok Sabha elections.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that... it seems like that's the norm.

It's so easy to make an Asian person the doctor, the lawyer, the smart kid in school. What's harder is challenging the norm and hiring Asian actors to play your Average Joe.

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.

I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.

When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, 'I'm whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend...' Why can't you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.

People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.

We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.

When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.

If you walk into a room, and there is no one that's not like you there, whether it's a woman or a person of color, anyone that's different from you, you should be able to say this is a problem. We need allies in that room to say that video, this room, this company, these ideas, this film, this whatever, this is not right - this is not good enough.

The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.