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Justin Simien

American Director

Born: May 7, 1983

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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that. Justin Simien

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Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of malice and violence and ill will. It's been that way since black people were brought to this country. Justin Simien

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For whatever reason, gay characters, or characters that deal with sexuality issues, who are black, in 'black films'... are typically not dealt with with any sort of complexity. They're exoticized: their being gay is sort of the point. Justin Simien

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

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We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you're really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you're saying. Justin Simien

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We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world. Justin Simien

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I took an internship at Focus Features while I was in film school. I was really interested in how specialty movies were marketed and found their audience despite being about topics that were outside of the mainstream. Justin Simien

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous. Justin Simien

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I think I have a threshold for taking things too seriously. Justin Simien

Seriously Threshold Think Too Taking Things

If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first of all, there are other people already doing that, and they're making a lot of money doing it. Justin Simien

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America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country after the election of Donald Trump. Justin Simien

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There was a time when a studio executive would really love something and have no proof at all that it would work and just do it because they believed in it. That's how 'Star Wars' happened. Justin Simien

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It's always kind of gratifying to go back to the place that launched you and show you did good. Justin Simien

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

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It occurred to me that by naming the film itself 'Dear White People,' I could tap into the burgeoning meme culture as well as make a meta-commentary about the controversies within the film. Justin Simien

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