Quotes by Justin Lin - Page 2

As 'Warrior' comes together, I can't help but feel the pride of correcting a wrong and helping bring Bruce Lee's dream project to life.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Correcting
Bruce
Lee
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Sports is one of those few things left in our society where, as soon as you step on the court, or get in the ring, you are who you are.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Few Things
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I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Journey
Mean
People
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I left 'Fast and Furious' because I just felt like, at a certain point, after number six, there wasn't another story that I wanted to tell.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Furious
Certain Point
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The harder we push forward into the unknown the more it intensifies the reflection of humanity. That's what I really love about 'Star Trek.'
Justin Lin / Film Director
Reflection
Unknown
Star Trek
Trek
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That's in the mission statement when you're part of 'Trek.' It's our job to try to be bold and push forward. You have to be conscious of that.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Bold
Statement
Trek
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Film is similar to a basketball game. When that buzzer sounds, win or lose, the only thing you can control is how much effort you put into it.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Win Or Lose
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You sometimes get the sense that when people make sequels, they get conservative. If something worked, they do it over and over and over again.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Sequels
People Sometimes Something
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I kind of approach action/non-action very much similarly. It has to be character-based and it has to kind of come off the theme and the overall arc.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Arc
Overall
Similarly
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When I did my first student film, it was a ten minute film and it cost $U.S.4,000. I worked three jobs to pay for that and I haven't really slept since.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Slept
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Definitely the hardest thing is to find time to be grounded with real life, but without it, I don't think I'd be able to continue to grow as a filmmaker.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Grounded
Hardest Thing
Life Time Grow
The Hardest Thing
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I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Great Things
Phone Calls
Return
Calls
Phone
Options
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For me, I always loved summer movies. I love indie movies, foreign films, but there's definitely a part of me that loves summer movies, ever since I was a kid.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Love Movies Me
Indie
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Ang Lee and 'Hulk,' for instance - a movie about a guy with different-colored skin and a lot of repressed rage? Sounds like the perfect film for an Asian, to me!
Justin Lin / Film Director
Asian
Instance
Rage
Repressed
Ang
Ang Lee
Hulk
Lee
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When I was growing up, the honor role kids were picked on by the jocks. And those kids said, 'You know, 15 years from now, I'm going to be their boss and own them.'
Justin Lin / Film Director
Picked
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I grew up in the working class suburbs in the 80s so I do love Hollywood movies but what I don't like is when they take something that's successful and they recycle it.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Hollywood Movies
Suburbs
Recycle
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You want to have pressure and tell stories that you find a real reason to tell, aside from any business reason. If business is your only reason, that always goes badly.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Business Always Your
Aside
Badly
Real Reason
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Do what you love. I've seen so many people through the years calculate and speculate on what films to do in order 'to make it.' And every time those projects crash and burn.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Crash
What You Love
Love Time People
Burn
Calculate
Do What You Love
So Many People
Speculate
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Annapolis' is a very personal journey about this working-class kid trying to find out who he is, and every time he steps into the ring we get a sense of who he is as a person.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Steps
Working Class
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There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Anxiety
Passionate
Want
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If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.
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Decision
Fighting
Gone
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When I think of high school, stills are so important: it's all about the wallet with the kids - they define themselves with pictures, who they know, whose pictures they have. Yearbook pictures.
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Yearbook
Define
Wallet
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The great thing about a big studio movie is that you get to work with the best, the most talented craft people in the world. But you have to be able to communicate, trust, and empower everybody.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Communicate
Trust Best Work
Craft
Empower
Great Thing
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There was something so pure about 'Better Luck Tomorrow' because money wasn't the currency. It was passion. The fact we were trying to do something even though no one was asking us to. It meant a lot.
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Currency
Luck
Pure
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My Taiwanese parents came to America with no money and supported my brothers and me as small business owners in Orange County, which is close to L.A. but about as far away from Hollywood as you can be.
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Business Owners
County
Far Away
Orange
Orange County
Owners
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Business Money Me
Supported
Taiwanese
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I think within the ideology of what 'Trek' is, that it actually makes the daunting task of making something new more manageable, because it's part of 'Trek's' very design to tackle new worlds and characters.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Ideology
Manageable
Something New
Daunting
Tackle
Task
Trek
Worlds
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I'm so sick of independent films being co-opted by Hollywood. You're making a project that's small, really personal, and the first thing anyone asks in any meeting is, 'Who's in it?' I'm like, 'Are you kidding?'
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First Thing
Independent Films
The First Thing
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I get that a lot of people love 'Star Wars' - and I could see that you can love both and they can coexist in our lives. But the DNA of 'Star Trek' is different in as far as it's human beings, it's us in the future.
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Coexist
Dna
Star Trek
Trek
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We had a pretty good life, growing up in Taiwan, and I think my dad really made a concerted effort to say hey, we're going to take a chance and go halfway around the world so that my kids can have more opportunities.
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Good Life
Halfway
Taiwan
Take A Chance
Life Good Chance
Concerted Effort
Pretty Good
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My brothers and I would try to talk our dad into letting us stay up and watch 'Star Trek.' I remember watching it and feeling that a family is not just by blood, a family is a shared experience and that really stuck with me.
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Letting
Shared
Star Trek
Trek
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Growing up, I felt there was nothing my dad couldn't do, but didn't get the chance to do when we moved. I think he latched on to 'Trek' because of the sense of exploration and discovery, and hope. I think that's what he connected to.
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Connected
Discovery
Exploration
Moved
Trek
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Technology has grown so much that there's a whole idea of gluttony. Sometimes you get carried away because you can have a camera go through the window, but do I need a camera go through the window? Those choices are up to the director.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Technology
Choices
Gluttony
Window
Director
Camera
Carried
Grown
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Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally kind of sick of that. I love to see characters who just live and breathe and are comfortable in that space.
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Breathe
Backward
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Growing up, my parents had this little fish and chips restaurant in Anaheim in the shadows of Disneyland, and they didn't close until 9 P.M. As a family, we didn't eat dinner until 10 P.M., and we would watch the original Star Trek every night at 11.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Chips
Disneyland
Every Night
Shadows
Star Trek
Trek
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I always found it interesting when you went off to college, people would talk about how you go and search for your own identity. A lot of suburban middle-class kids would be shopping for identities and they would co-opt identities from other cultures.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Shopping
Always Your People
Cultures
Identities
Search
Suburban
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I remember when I was a kid, I'd watch 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV, and all the movies would star guys named things like 'Bruce Lai' - you'd never get the real Bruce Lee films. So when I finally saw 'Enter the Dragon,' I was like, 'Holy cow, who is this guy?'
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Holy
Remember When
Named
Bruce
Cow
Enter
Lee
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After I made 'Better Luck Tomorrow' and started taking meetings in Hollywood, I quickly learned that Asian Americans weren't even in the conversation as a minority, since there wasn't even a significant enough audience, and especially an audience for Asian American content.
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Asian
Luck
Meetings
Minority
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For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it's also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it's positive or negative, as long as it's three dimensional.
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Asian American
Representation
Longest
Longest Time
Regardless
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As an Asian immigrant coming in, for the longest time I still had problems getting in the lot because they're just not used to seeing someone like me who's directing these films. I do think ultimately there's a point where we can kind of just shed that label and become filmmakers.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Shed
Time Me Problems
Directing
Immigrant
Label
Longest
Longest Time
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It's about supporting the many talented artists and filmmakers out there trying to create work from that marginalized point of view. Go out and buy tickets to their movies and plays, support their crowd sourcing campaigns, show the industry that there is a viable audience for this work.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Campaigns
Marginalized
Point Of View
Tickets
Crowd
Filmmakers
Supporting
Viable
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I've sat in so many meetings where they talk about converting movies to 3D just for the China market and just to make more money. I saw that people in China work long, long hours and that it's expensive to go to the movies, and you want to rip them off for even more money? I don't think that's right.
Justin Lin / Film Director
China
Converting
Expensive
Long Hours
Meetings
Rip
Sat
Work Money Movies
Market
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I made a lot of mistakes along the way, but feel incredibly lucky to be in the position I am now and to be able to play a small part in trying to support talented, aspiring young filmmakers out there through a program like 'Interpretations' who, like me, had the desire and passion, but no connections to the industry.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Connections
Aspiring
Passion I Am Me
Interpretations
Small Part
Young Filmmakers
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When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were in my class. It was this kind of Easter European philosophy of motivating camera only through character and motions, and just exploring with lenses. That was the best year of my education in my life.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Easter
Exploring
Film School
Lenses
Polish
Life Education Best
Joe
Motions
Motivating
Professor
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