Diversity In Film Quotes & Sayings

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin. — Alexander Whyte

When I was a child I was told that whoever swallowed a hock-bone would one day own land," she said. "Have you tried that? I was told a sheep's hock-bone bought a croft, a cow's an estate. — Halldor Laxness

I have an agent in Hollywood and he's looking for material. If I get the offer and I feel I relate to that material, I will do it. I would love to do a horror film, a thriller, a tearjerker ... I like diversity. I would just like to sustain my sense of humour! — Carlos Cuaron

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable. — Marilynne Robinson

I always wanted to be a journeyman actor. I wanted to be able to do comedy and drama, classical and contemporary. I like to do film and theater. And I pride myself on that diversity of being a journeyman actor. — Wendell Pierce

I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far. — Halle Berry

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it. — David Spade

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production. — Agnieszka Holland

When I think of identity, I think of our bodies and souls and the influences of family, culture, and community - the ingredients that make us. James Baldwin describes identity as "the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self." The garment should be worn "loose," he says, so we can always feel our nakedness. "This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes." I'm still journeying toward that place where I'm comfortable in this nakedness, standing firmly in my interlocking identities. — Janet Mock

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did. — Cliff Martinez

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it? — Kaki King

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it. — A.R. Rahman

When you open to the world, the world opens to you. — Djahariah Mitra

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be. — Michael Stuhlbarg

I'm a sample of Jesus. I'm a super being. — Benny Hinn

Satan, you clown, you want to dissolve me with your charms. Well, I want it. I want it! Stab me with a pitchfork, sprinkle me with fire! — Arthur Rimbaud

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project. — Lou Diamond Phillips

You can cry about how things aren't fair, or you can stand tall and make things fair. — David Dalglish

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am. — Steve Alford

Ours is a lank country
and on the naked edge of her knife
our frail flag burns. — Pablo Neruda