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When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans were. There was literally a church on every corner.

While shooting in Uganda in 2011, the conservative evangelical pastors I was filming - the most ardent supporters of the country's now infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill - discovered that I myself am gay.

Roger Ross Williams

Wiseman's films are some of the most pure cinema, and to take a journey in a Wiseman film is like no other. He's been doing it so long, with a body of over 40 films!

Roger Ross Williams

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

Roger Ross Williams

I would be remiss if I didn't say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.

Roger Ross Williams

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

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

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

Roger Ross Williams

Gay Africans must speak up and let everyone know they are there, they have always been there, and that they are not going away.

Roger Ross Williams

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a voice to those in the world who don't have one.

Roger Ross Williams

Don't boycott the Oscars. Staying away from something that needs to change is no way to change it. Instead, let's help them lead the way in promoting diversity in Hollywood.

Roger Ross Williams

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

Roger Ross Williams

I had my own Land of Lost Sidekicks, where I pretended I lived in Paris with my best friend, a little cowboy based on a Marky Maypo doll.

Roger Ross Williams

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

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?'

Roger Ross Williams

I just didn't realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on American society until my assistant coached me on the stories and brought me up to speed.

Roger Ross Williams

All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away.

Roger Ross Williams

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.

Roger Ross Williams

The more I learned about religion in Africa, the more intrigued I became. It was as if the continent was gripped with religious fervor. And the center of it was Uganda.

Roger Ross Williams

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

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

Roger Ross Williams

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

Roger Ross Williams

Hollywood has to diversify.

Roger Ross Williams

What is so attractive about Uganda for missionaries is that they have free rein. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, the parliament.

Roger Ross Williams

I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.

Roger Ross Williams

When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans were. There was literally a church on every corner.

Roger Ross Williams

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

Roger Ross Williams

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

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

Roger Ross Williams

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

Roger Ross Williams

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

The American evangelical movement in Africa does valuable work in helping the poor.

Roger Ross Williams

When I decided to make 'Blackface,' a short film about Black Pete, I had little knowledge of the giant cesspool of hate I was about to dive into. I didn't realize how popular and passionate many white Dutch are about a figure that they connect to fond memories from their childhood.

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