Malcolm D. Lee Quotes

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.

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With 'Roots,' I was just as proud as anybody else that people of color were getting their stories told.

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

I would like to see more films being made with people of color behind the camera and in front of the camera, because the more times at bat we have, the better we get.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

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.

My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.

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.

For the American culture to evolve and include Asians is so amazing.

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.

My wish would be for positive representation and more diversity coming from Hollywood.

All we want eventually to see is more black and ethnic coaches involved at the higher levels of the game. Anything that promotes that is something very much worthwhile.

My generation, we're so diverse in so many ways.

It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a little bit of parsley. Diversity happens because the people that are telling the stories - the writers, directors, storytellers - want to tell their story.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

I think the fact that we are trying to get as many young black and ethnic coaches involved in the game through campaigns to encourage that are important.

We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.

I want to do Indian films based on scripts with a universal appeal.

I will continue to look for opportunities to tell stories that speak to a fresh generational, topical and multicultural point of view.

There's room for Spike Lee's movies; there's room for Tyler Perry's movies. There's room for classics with an all black cast. There's room for all of it as long as we don't try to make any one piece define us as a race.

I'm getting to use my platform as the Bachelorette - on my season - to really make change through my experience.

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'