"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 explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people."

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Source : "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". EURWeb Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

Forest Whitaker

#Moving Quotes #Character Quotes #Past Quotes

“I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.”
“The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.”
“I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.”
“Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.”
“Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you're thinking before you've had a chance to think about it.”
“Itâ€™s not that I canâ€™t fall in love. Itâ€™s really that I canâ€™t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I canâ€™t distinguish between whatâ€™s platonic and what isnâ€™t, because itâ€™s all too much and not enough at the same time.”
“Who doesn't want to go to the Emmys? But it ends up just being really boring.”
“How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.”

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