American - Director | May 7, 1983 -
I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.
Justin Simien
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If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first of all, there are other people already doing that, and they're making a lot of money doing it.
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I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens.
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America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country after the election of Donald Trump.
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My thing is to try to tell the truth as honestly as possible. For me, the weight is, how can I tell the truth through fiction, the best that I can?
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I tend to take on too many projects at the same time, but as I've always done, I will continue to shift my focus onto whatever feels most urgent in the moment.
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Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is not really about a space opera, action, and the galactic quest. It's about self-doubt.
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Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year.
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There was a time when a studio executive would really love something and have no proof at all that it would work and just do it because they believed in it. That's how 'Star Wars' happened.
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It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.
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I know it's 'Dear White People,' and you can imprint all kinds of concessions about what the show might be about on the title, but my goal was never to, like, educate white people. My goal was always to create characters that you can relate to and fall in love with.
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Here's the thing: I come from a filmmaking background, so this concept of sort of overseeing a television show but not directing was, in general, not weird, but I had to get used to what that felt like. My initial instinct was, 'I want to direct as much of this as possible.' But the logistics of making of TV, that's just not possible.
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