Activist Quote by Roger Ross Williams

I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a…

— Oliver Stone

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

— Damien Chazelle

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

— Justin Lin

What happened was months and months passed before I read anything where there was a filmmaker I wanted to work with. I wound up…

— Cuba Gooding Jr

When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next…

— Roger Ross Williams

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The filmmakers that I studied and appreciated growing up are the ones that are able to dictate their vision clearly to each department, and…

— Logan Lerman

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on…

— Chaz Bono

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.…

— Shirin Ebadi

I have never been an activist for anything.

— Jim Parsons

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who…

— Marian Wright Edelman