I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
The establishment wants to connect with people who are like them, and I wasn't. I'm a black gay man from a poor working-class family. Most of the people who look like me are in prison. — 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 Image
I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast in her society because she was disabled, to someone who picked herself from that despair and elevated herself within that community, and now that society accepting her as much as they formerly rejected her. People identified… — 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 Image
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 Bill - discovered that I myself am gay. — 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 Image
My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
As Mike Bickle said to me, there is a spiritual battle going on in the world, and he believes that in America marriage between a man and a woman will become illegal. He believes there will be a war. He believes it'll begin in schools and the Christian kids will rise up and slay the non-Christian kids. This was an… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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 participated in the writing of the book and wanted people to see him as he truly is. As far as the cameras, Owen lives in the moment and the cameras…” quote by Roger Ross Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b3/roger-ross-williams-5118_autistic_i-both-didn-t-know-owen-suskind-beforeha_133749.jpg)
