Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

- Justin Simien

This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture r…

- Justin Simien

As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basi…

- Justin Simien

America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country, after the election of Donald Trump.

- Justin Simien

I love being entertained sure, but the movies that I live for, the movies that I buy and think about and stay in my mind are the movies that entertai…

- Justin Simien

I love films from all these different points of views that used the idea of the school as a way to talk about the American experience. It took me a w…

- Justin Simien

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be …

- Justin Simien

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down t…

- Justin Simien

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this mov…

- Justin Simien