Approach Quote by Justin Simien

“I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.”

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I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.

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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…

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I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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There are a plethora of ways of being black, just like there's many ways to being white.

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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.

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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…

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Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South.

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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…

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It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is…

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