“One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argumen...” — Justin Simien Quote

“One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argument in a film, you have to make sure both characters are right.”

“'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had watching a film. Finally, I was able to pick up on what the film was transmitting almost entirely through dialogue.”

“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.”

“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”

“Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and the less attention I give to the argument. Arguments come and go.”

“Of course I would disagree that there's a definitive science that has concluded that mankind has turned the earth's thermostat up and that we can turn the earth's thermostat down at will, we just haven't yet found the will. That's the argument on climate change.”