Jacob Batalon Quotes

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

I don't feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully aware of the plight that actors, directors and producers of color face in our industry. I choose to focus on being proactive in creating opportunities for myself and others while acknowledging that we are not playing on a level playing field.

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

It's a shame that ethnic minorities aren't getting a crack at different types of roles. There needs to be a bit of a change.

If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.

I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is being overlooked.

We believe that the Committee on the Federal Judiciary can no longer be all-white. Minority groups, particularly the black lawyers of our nation, should be represented…

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?

I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was shut for so long.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity.

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.

Hollywood's racist.

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.