Immigrant Quote by Jimmy O. Yang

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I'm most concerned with committing to characters that contribute to more complex, modern and dynamic Asian-American representation on screen.

— Eugene Lee Yang

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

— Andrew Lam

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are…

— James Gray

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully…

— Forest Whitaker

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed…

— Joseph O'Neill

I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a…

— Junot Diaz

There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries, and they…

— Antonio Banderas

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most…

— Gene Tierney

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot…

— Corey Reynolds

Successful immigrants assimilate or become bi-cultural.

— David Starkey

“After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote about the…

— Marina Gorbis