Quotes About Inclusion

In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and there's no going back.

It is important for the film industry to rise above ageism.

When the women in any other film industry are almost equal to men, in Malayalam only one or two women are among the crew.

Film was something I didn't really think about when I was young, because if you looked like me, you weren't a film star.

We've been fighting our whole lives to say we're just human beings like everyone else. When we start separating ourselves in our work, that doesn't help the cause. I've heard it for years: 'How do you feel being a black filmmaker?' I'm not a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker. I'm a black man, I have black children. But I'm just a filmmaker.

All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

You can make kids and fans happy without calling them on the court in the last three minutes of the NBA Finals.

We have to learn to be allies to each other. We are in a deficit of financial and social capital, and TransTech aims to help trans people reverse that.

I've got my finger in a lot of pies.

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

I would like to see even more women coming in to all roles, particularly into the specialisms like firearms and public order, I would like to see women being really confident and comfortable in those roles.

Nobody should get fired because of who they are, or who they love.

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

I'm such a firm believer that everyone should see themselves in a character, and everyone should feel represented.

I'm a firm believer in not leaving people out to dry.

I was the first one on the team, and I got to watch everybody come in.

I hadn't seen any people like me on TV before, and I definitely didn't want to be the first one. I didn't want that responsibility on my head.

Trumpeting diversity undermines what you are trying to achieve in the first place. It should happen without fanfare.

That's why I created Smart Girl Club in the first place because I really wanted to combat the non-inclusion that I felt in a lot of places.

When I read Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home,' it was the first time I saw drawings that looked like me.

I just want to fit in and win games for my team.

I never really fit in anywhere.

It's not always about 'Can you do the job?' It's about 'Can you fit in with the team?'