Quotes About Diversity

I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it's fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.

I spent my childhood all over the country. In certain parts where I grew up, films were this fantasy world.

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

When I don't know what to do with a character, that's when I say yes to it. When it's far away from the way I am, the way I feel or the way I think, that's when it's more attractive.

You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come back, and it seemed like the same song was playing. I want to stay as far away from that as I can in my band.

I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.

I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in.

So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.

It's not what color you are or how you fare with fans, it's who you are and what personality you have.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

Chicanos and running water are endlessly fascinating. I can watch them all day.

I've seen attraction manifest itself in so many fascinating ways. Lots of straight-identifying men have been attracted to me as Courtney.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'