John Boyega Quotes

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.

I think it's funny when stereotypes happen.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

The reason to do any barking - well, the reason for me - is that 'Three Billboards' feels so off about so many things. It's one of those movies that really do think they're saying something profound about human nature and injustice.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

I remember once at the end of a BBC job interview the manager said to me: 'I didn't realise people like you were clever.' I don't think he was being intentionally nasty. At that time in the BBC he was surrounded by clones of himself, give or take some facial hair and glasses.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television.

If something happens that reinforces your stereotype, it’s a big deal.

People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

Self-examination - when the whole world around you is pressuring that and challenging you - is very, very hard. Looking at a whole structure - in my case, let us say of snobbery, basking in certain privileges, marks of what appear to be superiority - that's ugly to look at.