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Hollywood Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

9 Hollywood quotes by Roger Ross Williams

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Roger Ross Williams offers a concise look at Hollywood through nine of his reflections. Though the collection is modest, each line captures a facet of the industry that resonated with him, making this a handy starting point for anyone curious about his perspective on cinema.

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Hollywood has to diversify.

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All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

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I think we have to work with Hollywood. We have to work in the system and change it.

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Don't boycott the Oscars. Staying away from something that needs to change is no way to change it. Instead, let's help them…

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Lack of diversity in Hollywood has been well documented thanks to #OscarSoWhite, but lack of diversity in the documentary world is less…

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[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't…

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Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.

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The Academy just reflects Hollywood. And until we break those barriers, until we have African-American or minority studio executives, 'til we have…

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While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color…

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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…

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I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

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As Mike Bickle said to me, there is a spiritual battle going on in the world, and he believes that in America marriage between…

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I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott…

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Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.

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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…

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I grew up in the church, and I went into the production of 'God Loves Uganda' intending to raise awareness of the abuse of…

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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…

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Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

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Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.

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While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

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