Color Quote by Roger Ross Williams

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

— Roger Ross Williams

White filmmakers get so many opportunities to create stories, and how better could you use your voice than to take people of color and…

— Taylor Russell

If a white filmmaker is going to tell a story about a Black family, then because they get all the opportunities that they get,…

— Taylor Russell

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

— Robert Greene

If a filmmaker is making a movie about a nice Midwestern family or a story that needs a very white character or a black…

— Sarita Choudhury

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a…

— Jim Brown

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to…

— Ava DuVernay

There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody…

— Karina Longworth

When you surround yourself with white people, you continue to hire white people, and when you make an effort to hire people of color,…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good…

— Will Packer

Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely happens. I…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not…

— Charles Burnett