Kaya Scodelario Quotes

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

Having racially diverse casts on television is a more accurate depiction of the demographic of the world we live in.

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity with better diversity in TV shows, especially for Asian actors. I agree with that 100 per cent.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own reality.

I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could see. So many of them were really more about the human condition and about relationships between people, and they were smaller films that had a much greater impact on me as a human being.

Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

I have carried my Jamaican Flag with pride around the world to share my culture and experience with others because I seek Balance which is what I believe life is all about.

At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that - in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the - of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]