All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I think we have to work with Hollywood. We have to work in the system and change it. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Don't boycott the Oscars. Staying away from something that needs to change is no way to change it. Instead, let's help them… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Lack of diversity in Hollywood has been well documented thanks to #OscarSoWhite, but lack of diversity in the documentary world is less… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
The Academy just reflects Hollywood. And until we break those barriers, until we have African-American or minority studio executives, 'til we have… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
While shooting in Uganda in 2011, the conservative evangelical pastors I was filming - the most ardent supporters of the country's now infamous Anti-Homosexuality… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
As Mike Bickle said to me, there is a spiritual battle going on in the world, and he believes that in America marriage between… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem, because he… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
I grew up in the church, and I went into the production of 'God Loves Uganda' intending to raise awareness of the abuse of… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
I began filming 'God Loves Uganda' by first meeting some of the Ugandan and American missionaries who have helped create Uganda's evangelical movement. They… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share
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