I think women should be more independent. In society, we’re portrayed as people who simply wear make-up and sit around. We need a Princess Charming – a woman who rescues her man and slays the dragon instead of the other way round.
Social studies was my favorite subject. I remember I portrayed Walter Mondale in a mock debate in my sophomore social studies class.
What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus in Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ I can see parallels in Chinese historical romances, in the way the first emperor of the Han dynasty and his chief rival are portrayed.
If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you’re going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.
‘That’s What She Said’ is not Hollywood’s standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up ‘girl’ women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.
So often, in films, there are two ways a female can be portrayed: either innocent and virginal or the complete opposite.
Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.
I certainly don’t recognise myself as the horrible sexist portrayed in media reports, and I don’t think the women who have worked with me throughout my career do either.
Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
‘Wuthering Heights’ is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, ‘How is this romantic? All these people are horrible to each other!’
I don’t know that I’m as conservative as portrayed.
We the people have the power to decide who we want to see in our advertisements and how we want the world to be portrayed. If we show that being ethical and being diverse is profitable, they’re going to market to us.
In my experience, it’s usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.
I was really upset when media portrayed Sandalwood in a negative light. How could they? It’s an industry I love so much.
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
I’ve been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that’s my background, and that’s the way I’d like to be portrayed.
I’ve pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn’t been covered yet.
Relationships are very complex. It’s very unusual to see something which is so ‘complex portrayed on screen.
It started with ‘A League of Their Own.’ I mean, to me, if you played softball or baseball as a girl growing up, that is the staple movie, like, where girls are portrayed as athletes, and real, like, different, from Madonna, you know, to Geena Davis. I mean, I could quote that movie, every single line.
Jaspal Bhatti saab was the one who uplifted the image of Sikhs on the national and international stage. There used to be a lot of satire on Sikhs earlier. A guy wearing a turban was portrayed as a joke, but since Bhatti saab entered cinema he changed the entire perspective and idiom of Sardar jokes.
I can’t stand films where parents are portrayed as old and doddery, and ignore their kids.
What’s most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I’m a great believer of energy and emotion.
I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.
Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
I wasn’t exactly sure where I wanted to take my music and how I wanted to be portrayed, and it was sort of, not done for me, but more directed.
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media… Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.
The leading character isn’t always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it’s people who haven’t read Shakespeare.
