59 Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

I will always make films that champion outsiders, because I still feel like one, even though I'm now governor of the documentary branch of the Academy.

I made a film about a person living with a disability. Those kinds of films are often about the disability, not who a person is.

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

All the politicians in Uganda play to their fundamentalist benefactors in America because of the flow of money.

I never watched much TV at home - it just wasn't part of our home culture.

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

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

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 is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?'

I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are basically classic fables that have been told for thousands of years.