“I just didn't realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on Amer...” — Roger Ross Williams Quote

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.

When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like to make a film about religion in Africa because the prosperity gospel is big business where people are desperate, poor, and sick.

The Academy just reflects Hollywood. And until we break those barriers, until we have African-American or minority studio executives, 'til we have people who are greenlighting movies with African-American actors - the Academy is not going to change until Hollywood changes, so we have to start with Hollywood.

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

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.