Best quotes by Justin Simien on Movies

Checkout quotes by Justin Simien on Movies

• ‟ Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy rom-coms or 'Madea' movies, and then you have the black-torture awards movie.

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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 films about various people told at the same time.

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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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• ‟ I want to make movies in every genre.

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• ‟ I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing.

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• ‟ I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

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• ‟ 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 other, but OK.' They don't recommend other historical biopics - it's 'B.A.P.S.' and 'Ghost Dad.'

  - Justin Simien