Gabrielle Carteris Quotes

You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.

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.

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.

Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

You get into these executive offices, and people say, 'Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity - let's choose a black actor for this; let's choose a Hispanic actor for this,' instead of saying, 'That's not diverse, that's just normal. That's what makes up America.'

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.

We live in diverse communities with all sorts of people from all sorts of different backgrounds. The more our entertainment can be a reflection of the world we live in, the better it is for all of us.

My wish would be for positive representation and more diversity coming from Hollywood.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

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

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

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

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 think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.

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 look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.