Quotes About Representation

People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

As a filmgoer and a filmmaker, I want to participate and tell stories of woman and man that will move us forward.

Democracy is stronger, is better, is more robust when people participate. We should want to encourage that.

We must find ways to encourage more professional women to participate in politics.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.

Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.

Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.

Traditionally in American cinema, Black men and women's participation in world wars is often not even represented at all.

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.

America needs leader that work for them, not partisan gain.

A director has to be on the set when the crew is called and is the last one to leave at night. I'm not saying it's not possible, but that's partly why we're not seeing more women.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III.

It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.

I know that for myself, when I make a decision to partner up with somebody, it's something I put a lot of thought into before I do it. This is a big reason why you have agents to represent you, so they can help filter through the different options you have off the field in terms of partnerships.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

I want men to be asking to play great female parts!

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.