Clare-Hope Ashitey

I think we've all done things that are a detriment to ourselves, and we've all made good choices that have brought good…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

Try to understand that behind every headline, there are individuals, families, and communities.

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

With so much racial tension and issues between the police and black and minority ethnic groups, there needs to be more in-depth…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director.

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

Scripts specify 'minority' when it doesn't seem necessary. Given this is a traditionally liberal and progressive industry, it's surprisingly backwards.

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

Between Trump's election and Brexit, there were all sorts of opinions coming out of the woodwork that I thought had died out…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

After I finished university and started going to auditions again, and I also did a bunch of other jobs. I worked in…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

It's not so important to me where I work. A lot of good writers and directors and actors come out of Hollywood,…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

I think people have always had ambiguous relationships toward the police because of the position in society they occupy. But that anxiety…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters.…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

I can't think of an experience I've had with police that I felt was based on race, which is one difference between…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

No one tells actors anything; we're always the last people to find out.

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

If I only worked in England for the rest of my life, I wouldn't feel like I failed.

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go,…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey