Christopher Fowler Quotes

I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.

I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.

I believe that you can love anyone. I've had relationships with women, I've had relationships with men. I don't think you should be judged based on who you find attractive. Especially guys - gay men, they really have it hard sometimes.

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.

You don’t have to be straight to shoot straight.

Free thought is a virtue that cannot be crushed

Africaness is not something that limits you to a corner of humanity…it expands you universally

Ordination Regardless of Orientation!

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.

I don't think anything should limit me. I don't think any industry should be disrespected or looked down upon.

It is difficult for people across the world to be comfortable with their sexuality. We need more education and awareness.

I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn't make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.

I always have a few different books going at once.

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.