Taraji P. Henson Quotes

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.

I'm a fan of films in general; I mean, I don't think I've ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.

I do have a soft corner for rom-coms, but at the same time, I like drama, too.

I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an award-winning drama.

One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'

Most people think they don't have anything to relate to a drag queen, but shockingly there's a lot we can talk about.

I'm a sucker for sports movies.

'Junebug' is my favorite Amy Adams movie. I remember watching 'Mama' a lot.

If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

Well, I thought the opening of 'Hatari!' was pretty good. And 'The Pink Panther' wasn't half bad either.

I enjoy a good movie, no matter what the genre.

'Sugarland Express' is a movie that I really loved and watched a lot.

I enjoy things that are relevant to me, like maths and science and 'Countdown,' and I don't want to offend our viewers.

I liked 'Maheshinte Prathikaaram' very much.

I have grown up watching conventional films. I am a huge fan.

In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.

I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

I remember when I was a kid being called names, including the 'n' word. The first time that happened, it really bothered me. But most of the people I dealt with were all white. Most of my close friends were white.

I'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.'

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.

This is why the terrorists hate us. And it's not the glitter and it's not the pomp and circumstance. We've got black and white, we've got Hispanic and Asian, we got gay, straight, and Guttenberg, all working together for one common goal: to get the mirror ball. And the mirror ball doesn't care what color you are, and it doesn't care how rich your parents are, and it doesn't care what God you pray to. It's an even wooden floor, and may the best man or woman win. And I say God bless Dancing with the Stars, and God bless the USA.

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.