Vincent Rodriguez III Quotes

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

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.

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

The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.

When we've had images that perpetuate the negative stereotype of people of color, we've always had 'The Cosby Show' to hold up against that. And the fact that we no longer have that kinda leaves us not in a great place in terms of having the wide scope of the images of people of color.

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.

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

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

Creating more characters that represent historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people in television and film is certainly important.

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.

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

I fully believe that representation and inclusion matters... and that's why on all of our films, we've featured diverse casts, and that actually is true for 'Kubo' as well.

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.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

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.