Zoe Saldana Quotes

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

I think the serious roles impact people the most.

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.

What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

I want to watch telly that reflects the world I see.

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

The same actor plays the role of a thief and a police officer on-screen. It's not fair to look for role models in them.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being discovered, because that's where you find some really brilliant artists.

It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.

I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

Some films do portray women in their 40s well, and some other films don't. Some films are written by women, so maybe there's a little more accuracy there.

I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be.