“It's always kind of gratifying to go back to the place that launched y...” — Justin Simien Quote

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

“I love great prestige television, but because I make television, sometimes I don't want to, like, you know, fall into a very heavy cerebral drama.”

“When you're part of a society where you're constantly having to define your identity and sort of negotiate with what the mainstream culture thinks you are, you have less energy and time to figure out who you are when you go home at night.”

“You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'”

“I like when you say something that just hits someone. Even though everybody could be laughing, for some reason that person maybe had that happen to them that day, it resonated with them, so hearing that is always very gratifying.”

“In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.”