I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I love the art house, and when I say the art house, I don't just mean little, independent movies but movies that… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
If you walk out of a movie that's meant to be about race in our country, and you're feeling good and happy,… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Daring to make films of any kind and thus invite the possibility of ridicule was an internal battle of mine for many… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
The downside of doing a multi-protagonist movie is that you don't get to service each character as you would if they were… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
You watch 'Malcolm X,' and then Netflix recommends 'B.A.P.S.,' and you're like, 'What? Those movies have absolutely nothing to do with each… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I love films from all these different points of views that used the idea of the school as a way to talk… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I love being entertained sure, but the movies that I live for, the movies that I buy and think about and stay… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of shooting something that looks like it could belong in any movie. I'm not a fan of,… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share
I thought I was depressed because I wasn't a writer/director. I moved into a space where I'm a writer/director, my movie is a hit… — Justin Simien Copy Share
I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story… — Justin Simien Copy Share
I'm very interested in clans and the way people group together, and there's a lot of group shots. There's a lot of people in… — Justin Simien Copy Share
One of the things that I love about Robert Altman's movies is that, really, a Robert Altman movie is just a bunch of short… — Justin Simien Copy Share
I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those… — Justin Simien Copy Share
There are a plethora of ways of being black, just like there's many ways to being white. — Justin Simien Copy Share
The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies. — Justin Simien Copy Share
Everybody else was quoting 2Pac, and I was running around with Green Day in my Walkman. Racially speaking, I wasn't cool or appropriate for… — Justin Simien Copy Share
Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South. — Justin Simien Copy Share
In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a… — Justin Simien Copy Share
It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is… — Justin Simien Copy Share
Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with. — Justin Simien Copy Share
I took an internship at Focus Features while I was in film school. I was really interested in how specialty movies were marketed and… — Justin Simien Copy Share
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