Clare-Hope Ashitey : (4)

" If you are watching a fairy tale, that’s why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if it’s meant to be real life, you want there to be some reflection of your experience and have something you can hook into. " - Clare-Hope Ashitey

" Scripts specify ‘minority’ when it doesn’t seem necessary. Given this is a traditionally liberal and progressive industry, it’s surprisingly backwards. " - Clare-Hope Ashitey

" We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could be a poor choice or a good choice or anywhere in between. But we make that decision in the moment, and we live with the consequences. " - Clare-Hope Ashitey

" I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn’t prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process. " - Clare-Hope Ashitey