Justin Lin Quotes

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Justin Lin

Profession : Director

Birth : October 11, 1971

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.

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All my friends were 'Star Wars' kids but I didn't go to the movies, so I was the 'Star Trek' kid.

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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.

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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.

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For me, when I was growing up, everybody I knew was a 'Star Wars' kid.

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I grew up, from ages 8 to 18, watching reruns of 'Star Trek' with my dad and my mom when they got home from work.

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When you have an opportunity to do something again, the money goes up and people get more conservative.

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When I was making the 'Fast and Furious' movies, I wasn't trying to make a 'Fast and Furious' movie.

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I consider everybody on 'Fast' my family, you know we grew up together.

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Obviously, 'Fast' has been a big part of my life.

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We make movies and we all try our best and sometimes we connect with the audience, sometimes we don't.

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Without 'Annapolis,' I wouldn't have gotten 'Tokyo Drift' - I wouldn't be here today. And, so, it's part of who I am.

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There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.

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Terminator' was one of my favorite films growing up.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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I'm the child of immigrants.

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