Hildur Gudnadottir Quotes

It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a little bit of parsley. Diversity happens because the people that are telling the stories - the writers, directors, storytellers - want to tell their story.

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

Diversity is not one in the room. Diversity is not two in the room. Diversity is not three in the room. True diversity is half the room.

If you believe, as we believe, that diversity leads to better products, and we're all about making products that enrich people's lives, then you obviously put a ton of energy behind diversity the same way you would put a ton of energy behind anything else that is truly important.

We want the diversity of the world that is around us represented both in front of and behind the camera, and on our screens as a result.

I love the diversity of my district, and it does drive a fair amount of my work.

I think it's great that we're living in a time when everyone is being represented on TV and film.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

I think diversity and multiculturalism on TV and on the screen is such a powerful thing. And to be honest, it's a very American thing.

If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.

I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better!

We always look to add more diverse characters to shows if we feel we haven't delivered.

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope everyone can look beyond the bikini or beyond the whole beauty pageant stereotype of Miss USA, and realize that what I'm doing is more significant than just that. It represents the United States as a country of opportunity, where you can do anything you want to, and ethnicity and religion cannot stop you.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.