Adrian Younge Quotes

In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

We want the diversity of the world that is around us represented both in front of and behind the camera, and on our screens as a result.

I think it's great that we're living in a time when everyone is being represented on TV and film.

I think the crux of this urgent and real conversation about representation and diversity in art-making and storytelling both behind and in front of the camera ultimately has to do with simply seeing more human perspectives.

I had always wanted to do a show of girls of color, a show that showcased diversity.

We have to support everyone so their stories don't get 'invisibilized.' We don't necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with people of color, but it's just about saying 'We have hearts, we have souls, we have minds, we have faults, we have flaws, and we're super-freaking interesting.'

Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better!

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

If I go to the museum and see white bodies, black bodies, Asian bodies, Latino bodies, then I will expect to see those things every time I go. That matters a lot.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

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

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

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.

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.

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

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.

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.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.

It's very important to me that people get to see themselves in stories. When someone tells me they've never seen themselves, I have a new goal.

I want to be in everything, but that's because I haven't seen someone who looks like me in everything. I want to play a superhero. I want to be the love interest. I want to write my own stuff and create my own projects. I want to be in French films.

It's hard as a young person of a different ethnicity or background to look at the TV and not see anyone who looks like you. Representation is very important.

'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

Girls of color and young women need to be seen, heard, and valued. Schools can help make this happen by including our stories in the curriculum.