Quotes About Diversity

Some people can only freestyle, some people can only make certain types of songs. I can do it all.

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

You may hear from my fabulous accent that I'm French!

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.

I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

Diversity is very, very important. I talk about it frequently. And my efforts there should never be challenged no matter what my political view.

At school, I was frequently subjected to racial abuse.

I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

Some people don't like change. Some embrace it. But the way it's going - not just in football, but in society generally - it's more diverse. People want freshness.

With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction.

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

I maybe need a break, because I feel like I've done every iteration of it, and that's what's been great, you know - 'Mr. Brooks' is so different from 'Friday the 13th,' which is so different from 'The Crazies,' which is different from 'Piranha.' So, I feel like I've kind of covered it across the board.

My parents would watch movies like 'Big' and 'Freaky Friday,' and I wanted to see that kind of story told from an African-American angle. So I had the idea for 'Little,' and then I told my parents, and we all fleshed it out together.

If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,' I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken.

I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'