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Roger Ross Williams Quotes

American - Producer | September 16, 1970 -

The establishment wants to connect with people who are like them, and I wasn't. I'm a black gay man from a poor working-class family. Most of the people who look like me are in prison.

Roger Ross Williams

Family Man People Me Black Prison

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

Roger Ross Williams

Destiny Prison End Odds Up Would

Often, films about people with disabilities are from the outside looking in.

Roger Ross Williams

People Looking Outside Disabilities

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 who just planted me in front of the television. But while growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world.

Roger Ross Williams

Me Mom Growing Up World Cinema Kid

I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Roger Ross Williams

Childhood Reality Kind My Own Own

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

Roger Ross Williams

Relationship Important Director

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.

Roger Ross Williams

Champion Feel Now Will Always Still

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 represent all the Rogers out there who don't have a seat at the table. People of colour were not at the table, and now I am there, I want to change things.

Roger Ross Williams

Change Responsibility I Am People

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

Roger Ross Williams

People Color White Documentary Often

While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color rarely get hired by the powerful production companies, and they are not getting supported enough by broadcasters and funders to tell their own stories.

Roger Ross Williams

Community Color Enough Powerful Way

When I was in high school, I felt totally alienated from the world, but I loved movies. They were my escape, but coming from a disadvantaged community, I never knew that filmmaking was an option for me. A program like School of Doc would have been a game-changer.

Roger Ross Williams

Community School Me World Loved

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

Roger Ross Williams

Diversity World Hollywood Thanks

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