Ross Butler Quotes

The world in which we live is diverse, and I think television and film should reflect that.

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

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

You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino.

In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was more diversity in terms of storyline. In terms of the kind of content that you see about Americans of African descent on the screen.

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

Having brought diversity to the air in the way that we have with Kerry Washington and Viola Davis toplining their shows, and then shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Black-ish,' have been very important. I look forward to continuing in that vein.

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

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

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.

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.

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.

I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.

When I was in school, you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there's so many people of South Asian descent in America - in the world.

The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn't tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.

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

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

Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our public media.

It's so important... to have a variety of representation on television.

We're a country of many different cultures, and that's always what has made this country stand out. It almost feels like making diverse movies is the most American thing you can do.