Justin Simien Quotes

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

I'd love to make 10 to 12 films in my life. That's a lot of films, but it's doable.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act in some of them, and I fell in love with it.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.