“I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.” — Justin Simien Quote

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

I'm not a big fan of shooting something that looks like it could belong in any movie. I'm not a fan of, okay, 'wide shot, wide shot, medium shot, close-up, close-up - we'll figure it out in post.' I hate that.

Everyone at a performing arts schools is weird. The weirder you were, the better. If you weren't weird in some way, they'd look at you and be like, 'Who's that square?'

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

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

I think you should be a fan of something first if you intend to spend your life around it. You're going to have days when things don't go your way at the track. On those days, you just have to realize they happen to everybody in his sport and basically just suck it up.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

By the time I hit 33 I intend on retiring. I'm done after that.

I intend to grow old very disgracefully.