Sophie Okonedo Quotes

Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.

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 have to also get into producing if I want to see these stories being made... Let's venture out and do projects with people of different ethnicities: not just black but also Asian actors and Asian superhero films. Just an equality across the board.

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

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

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.

It's just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.

My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.

I really like when different stories are represented, it's not just the same kind of person, and when there's humor in it, and there's relationships.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn't tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.

Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.

It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.

The diversity in the CNN makeup room - it's like Ellis Island! No, it's like Noah's Ark: there are two of everything.

I think the most diverse group will produce the best product; I firmly believe that.

America seems much more diverse and has more exciting casting - they really take risks.

We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.

'The Talk' is one of the most diverse shows in daytime.

What does it serve any studio to not reflect the lives of people who are giving you money, who are crying out to you, 'Hey, please tell our stories.'

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.