Quotes / Monochrome Casting

"Mommy, how come no one looks like me on Friends?"

— Wayne Brady, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, during the "Scenes from a Hat" suggestion "Difficult questions for Mommy to answer."

Marina Sirtis: So why are the Baku all white and blonde?

Jonathan Frakes: ...They're of Swedish descent.

— Star Trek: Insurrection's DVD commentary.

Ridley Scott: (from video clip) I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such. I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.

Narrator: Yeah, you needed the white-hot star power of whoever the fuck this guy is.

— Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, on Exodus: Gods and Kings

Crow T. Robot: (in reaction to an avalanche burying several people) Just when you thought this movie couldn't get any whiter.

— Mystery Science Theater 3000 about the film ''Avalanche'

"Ace Combat 7 is a game that takes place in the Strangereal Universe, a deeply imagined world in which 90% of the planet is populated by white people."

— Max0r, An Incorrect Summary of Ace Combat 7

For a universe that's supposed to be half Chinese, Firefly sure doesn't have any Asians.

— The Uncomfortable Truths Well, xkcd ("Well")

Richie "LaBamba" Rosenberg: (singing in falsetto voice) In the year 2000...

Mr. T: 50 million viewers will watch the Friends finale in which it’s finally revealed that New York has black people.

(Mr. T starts cracking up)

— Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Producer: And I'm guessing since it's in New York there's gonna be a lot of diversity...
Screenwriter: Everyone will be white.
Producer: Oh!
Screenwriter: Everyone.
Producer: Wow.

— Friends Pitch Meeting

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