Justin Lin famous quotes

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

#Mean #Journey #People

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.
-- Justin Lin

#Pushing Forward #Littles #Knows

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.
-- Justin Lin

#White #Casts #Wells

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.
-- Justin Lin

#Issues #Pertinent #Filmmaker

It is very important to support what you believe in.
-- Justin Lin

#Believe #Support #Important

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

#Anxiety #Passionate #Want

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.
-- Justin Lin

#Fighting #Decision #Gone

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.
-- Justin Lin

#Kids #Thinking #Littles

The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.