Quotes About Media

If I can represent that body type of women that isn't represented so much in media, then I'd be happy to do that.

You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.'

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

I think the BBC has come a long way in equal pay. I think it's come the furthest of all in the representation of women on screen.

I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.

I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our public media.

If you take a step back, you realize that the TV landscape really has been... There have been some amazing shows in terms of representation, but not for Asian people.

We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of drag queens leading those discussions in marches on the street and even in bars going back to the time of Stonewall and before.

It's people who look like me, just seeing representation of everyone. I didn't get that when I was young. I only saw one black girl that was on a Disney show, that was known for being the sassy, coocoo, that type of girl.

I would definitely love to see a queer rom-com because representation matters. It does so much to help normalize things in the mind of society.

I think there's quite a narrow representation of gay people on TV and I think that we need to push that. And I think that we need to allow for a lot more stories to be told.

We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It's just not a reflection of how we live our daily lives.

I really do believe that representation matters in'media. When you see people that look like you, especially as a kid, you can think, 'Oh, that's something I can do because there are people that look like me that have done it in the past.'

We know already there is not enough representation of dark-skinned women in the media - that's just a fact.

Not all representation is good representation. I would argue a lot of the marginalized representation in TV and media is off, because a lot of the gatekeepers are white straight cis people who mean well and they think meaning well is enough, and it's not.

We didn't grow up in any sort of meaningful representation in media apart from, you know, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Bruce Lee. But, of course, that was different still, because it always played to this narrative of the foreigner from the East.

What needs to change, really, is that we need better representation behind the camera. We need better representation among the people who tell the stories or the people who greenlight the movies.

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

I wish that Bollywood weren't so youth and beauty obsessed when it comes to women. I think it is very 'under representative' of women in their 30s.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.