Quotes About Diversity

We must be sure that Canadians realize that our political differences with the Communist government in China has nothing to do with the country of China, or its people. The millions of Canadians with Chinese ancestry are not connected to our diplomatic differences with Beijing.

Doing 'SunTrap' after 'The Chase' is dipping into something different. That's the whole basis of what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't want to do the same thing all the time.

There is a certain highlighting of issues, be it emotional, be it social, or simply an entertainment one: they can be written or directed by a woman differently, with a different voice. I feel that their voice needs to be given more stage and more space.

I would love to be directed by more women.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.

Yes, I do realize that men in sports media also face criticism and backlash, but the vitriol that is directed at women, especially women of color, is far more severe.

I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

My career has taken so many directions.

I'm a woman director and my movies are shown all around the world.

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

Every director is completely different.

Every director is so different from every other one.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

I get to meet different directors and different people.