Mira Nair Quotes

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.

Creating more characters that represent historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people in television and film is certainly important.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

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.

I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.

I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.

In a nation growing increasingly more diverse, it is imperative that the organizations tasked with keeping us informed reflect the same diversity.

I'm a believer that we should support various forms of representation because they clearly resonate with unheard groups of people, and for such a huge project like 'Riverdale,' this kind of representation is fundamentally important.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

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'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.

People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn't make sense.

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

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.

I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.

The State shall ensure gender balance and fair representation of marginalized groups on all constitutional and other bodies

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.

I'm really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them.