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Roger Ross Williams Quotes

American - Producer | September 16, 1970 -

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.

Roger Ross Williams

Love Growing Up Book Jungle Growing

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

Roger Ross Williams

Money America Play Flow Politicians

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

Roger Ross Williams

Me Expectations Black Kind Matter

As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

Roger Ross Williams

Want Box Some Put Certainly

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

Roger Ross Williams

Me Phone Ring Offer Even Did

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

Roger Ross Williams

Community Man Growing Up Black Gay

I began filming 'God Loves Uganda' by first meeting some of the Ugandan and American missionaries who have helped create Uganda's evangelical movement. They were often large-hearted. They were passionate and committed.

Roger Ross Williams

God American Create Meeting Movement

The war against homosexuality in Uganda is fueled by the funds of American Christian missionary churches.

Roger Ross Williams

War American Christian Against Funds

I grew up in the church, and I went into the production of 'God Loves Uganda' intending to raise awareness of the abuse of religious power in Uganda, and after 30 public appearances, I have learned a lot about how people receive this sort of message.

Roger Ross Williams

God Power People Church Awareness

I have learned that the hardest part of campaigning for tolerance and justice is encouraging people to look at their own selves, to examine their own identity and shortcomings.

Roger Ross Williams

Justice Identity People Tolerance

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.

Roger Ross Williams

Person Living Disability Film Kinds

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