Casting Quote by Sandra Oh

There's racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many cases, strives…

— Shonda Rhimes

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

— BD Wong

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.

— J. R. Ramirez

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

— Justin Lin

When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you…

— Kerry James Marshall

“Plus, not casting white people in roles for people of color is the correct thing to do. It’s not a noble or laudable thing…

— Joseph Fink

I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or…

— Vanessa Morgan

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

In all my years in show business - on stage, clubs and TV shows - my audience has been 75 percent white. In Las…

— Nipsey Russell

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

— Roxane Gay

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black…

— George Pelecanos