Candice Patton Quotes

Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

There's so much diversity on TV. It's actually reflecting American culture.

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

CNN, a part of the Time Warner company, lives for news about everything and anyone. In the office, the bosses openly discuss the need for a diverse staff and diverse stories, and each time we draw new viewers, the effort intensifies.

We have to reflect the world that we live in.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

I think it's incredibly important that we think about diversity in the context of the White House press corps, because it's important that the group of people there is representative of the diversity that we see throughout the country.

I think it's important to have diversity in comics for a thousand reasons. It's not just some airy conceptual thing: it's important to reflect the humanity of the readership.

Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you're not concerned with including all of society, then I don't really know what you're doing making art in the first place.

You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.

I'm lucky enough to live in London, which is a boiling pot of every kind of language and background and demographic and sexuality and gender, and yet most of what we're seeing in the cinema is not reflective of that.

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'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.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

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 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.

The world we live in is like a Benetton ad. It's changed, and we have to appeal to a broader audience. You want younger kids of every race to be able to see themselves in the movie.

To represent the nation, you must have multiracial representation.

Studio heads seem to be getting the message that there is not only an audience out there, but there is a desire for people to see people of colour in central roles and in authoritative roles.

Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.

Diversity is essential to the success of the news industry, and journalists must include diverse voices in their coverage in order to reach a broader audience. We have stories to tell, but many in our audience have stopped listening because they can tell that we're not talking about them.

Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.

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