Ahead Quote by Roger Ross Williams

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

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

— Roger Ross Williams

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

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors,…

— Paula Patton

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for…

— Naveen Andrews

There's a lack of diversity amongst executives in the position of greenlighting a film who feel that their stories are being told. If there's…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like…

— Edwin Land

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

— Viola Davis

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's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the…

— Claude Chabrol

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there…

— Jordan Peele