Roger Ross Williams All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color. – Roger Ross Williams Color Quotes Documentary Quotes Filmmakers Quotes People Quotes Stories Quotes Telling Quotes White Quotes 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. 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.
Sarah MacLean One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don’t the stories lack complexity? Don’t the readers get bored? – Sarah MacLean
Jermaine Dupri Because I was in Atlanta, people didn’t realize I’m one of the real forefathers in the game. – Jermaine Dupri
Michael J Fox But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together. – Michael J Fox
Keith Olbermann I can’t think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes. – Keith Olbermann
Finn Wolfhard My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background. – Finn Wolfhard
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