“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.” PeopleNeedsDifferentHardLightFilmActorsDifficultSupportPositionColorHollywoodGreenProducersAfrican AmericanFilmmakerRelyEtcCohesionAmerican FilmGreen Lights Author:Paula Patton
“As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.” ThinkingKindPersonsPlayLightAbleGuyActorsWhiteColorAfrican AmericanStereotypeLatinoAmerican GuysEthnic Stereotypes Author:Daniel Sunjata
“In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.” YearsLittlesFilmMovingNextActorsBitsProcessTreeColorCoupleLittle BitMouthsCloudsTies Author:Robert Zemeckis
“As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.” WantActorsColorPaintingDirectorsPaintCanvasPalette Author:Denzel Washington
“For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.” PeopleYearsDifferentFormArtistActorsOpportunityActingStyleColorExcitingExcitementUnstoppableDifferent Colors Author:Kirk Cameron
“Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.” JobsArtistActorsFrontsColorCamerasWork OutSchemesTextureBindingYarnTextiles Author:Anthony Heald
“As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.” PeopleWantHumanityActorsCausesCasesColorSuitsCracksJust Being Author:Juliette Lewis
“Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes.” LooksEyeActorsActingColorToolsPerformancesPassionateGenreGoing AwayCaptureLiberatingPhysicality Author:Andy Serkis
“It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.” ActorsOpportunityGivenWhiteTalentColorDirectorsMalesProducersUnfair Author:Darnell M. Hunt
“There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.” IfsThinkingYearsCountryEnoughSchoolAmericaActorsClassColorSpringBrilliantGraduatesYaleNyu Author:Andre Holland
“A lot of British actors will look at America as a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.” FirstsLooksAmericaActorsOpportunityLandColorAmountEnglandBritishPoolSmall AmountsLand Of Opportunity Author:Aml Ameen
“I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.” PeopleIfsWritingFirstsLooksWholeActorsChallengesColorDirectorsTheatreDesignerTheatricalColorfulAccountantsWacky Author:Lanford Wilson
“It was wonderful to be able to play a character who had so many colors and who was able to play comedy, to play incredibly vulnerable, which he did a lot of the time, to play the love story, and to play the relationship with the son, which is quite unusual. That's a gift to me, as an actor.” PlayCharacterStoriesAbleActorsComedyWonderfulColorSonLove StoryVulnerableUnusual Author:John Noble
“Bruce McGill and Sasha Alexander are regulars on the show. That shows that it's not just a typical procedural show. We have these actors because they can come in and actually act, and show the different colors of actual people. No person is just one color. No person is just who they are at their job, 24/7. That was really what I was excited about.” PeoplePersonsDifferentShowsJobsActorsColorExcitedJust OneTypicalDifferent Colors Author:Angie Harmon
“Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it was the land of milk and honey. It was just as much of a hard graft. But there's a lot more opportunity nowadays across the board for actors, no matter what color you are, with the Internet and small productions.” YearsMatterHardAmericaActorsOpportunityFourLandNew YorkColorInternetNo Matter WhatProductionsBoardsHoneyMilkFour YearsMilk And Honey Author:Idris Elba
“It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.” YearsTwoActorsColorInsaneTwo YearsEmbarrassingShameful Author:Matt Damon
“I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.” NeedsActorsCompanyColorProductionsNarrative Author:Viola Davis
“I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.” PeopleMenFirstsSaidDifferentPlayStoriesKidsActorsDifferencesHeardColorHundredMy FriendsLet MeI RealizedPilotsSpidersDifferent PeoplesSpider Man Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.” WantNeedsImportantBigsActorsVoiceHeardColorDirectorsFemaleBig Things Author:David Oyelowo
“You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.” PeopleFacesActorsColorHairShapesPicks Author:George R. R. Martin