Stephanie Sigman Quotes

Filmmakers have role for everyone today. There are no stereotypical roles.

I really hope that the traditional sort of girl that people view as an actress changes. There's room for everyone, you know? All of us bring different things to the table. It's nice to show people that you don't have to be one type of personality to do this.

The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I've opened it up. And I don't just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in 'Bridesmaids', it changed how people see funny women.

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

I want to put something on the screen that audiences have never seen black actors do before, roles that will widen views of who African-Americans are.

I just want different narratives for people of color, especially women of color. I just want something that's different. I don't want us to be put in a box. I want it to be kind of a redefinition of who were are. If I can even achieve that in a tiny way, I'll be good. I'll be good.

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky enough to understand that - and be able to grab that opportunity and run with it.

Cinema is diversifying; there's room for every kind of cinema today.

I always love where I can plug a black woman in anywhere, and when that comes up, I don't say, 'Oh that has to be a black woman.' I say, 'Why not a black woman?'

You can have Asians being leading men that are sex symbols. You can have leading women powering through.

Some of our songs are empowering, but I feel like more so than our music, it's who we are. We're four women who are completely different ethnicities, completely different body types, completely different walks of life and opinions.

We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.

The world is yearning for more inclusion, because we're not living in 1930 where we've got X amount of superheroes and X amount of representation.

I would love to see more diversity on all sides, and not just in terms of women; we need people from different walks of life making films.

I'm so proud of 'Star Wars' as it is and the fact that it's making a concerted effort to be more inclusive and be more representative. Because it's 'Star Wars.' It's intergalactic. The more people who look like everyone, the better.

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

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

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

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.