Elaine Welteroth Quotes

I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

I always liked different things, rare things.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

Different isn't evil, it's just different.

Different isn't bad, it's just different.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

What's important to me is people just being people.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

Different is not wrong.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight.

We allow each other so little enjoyment or even tolerance for our individualities, our uniquenesses, and yet to me, that's what it's all about.

We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

There shouldn't be any kind of judgment towards somebody who has a belief system that is not yours.

It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.