Rae Carson Quotes

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

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.'

I fully believe that representation and inclusion matters... and that's why on all of our films, we've featured diverse casts, and that actually is true for 'Kubo' as well.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.

What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, everyone and anyone is around. So if people get to see themselves on the stage, they'll want to come.

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.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

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

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

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.

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

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

Diversity is … the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other habits of mind, have as much integrity of being, as much claim upon the world, as you do.