Quotes from Justin Lin

At the end of the day, if you're living by fear, you're gonna get screwed in Hollywood.

I always end up in these volatile situations.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

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.

I grew up peeling shrimp and making tartar sauce.

As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.

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

Boxing is a big part of American cinema.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

I've been fortunate to be able to try everything. But I have to say 'Warrior' has been my pride and joy.

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.

For filmmakers that want to have certain control, there are certain things you can't do in VR.

You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.

I love films where even if you don't like the film, it doesn't matter. It's about respecting a point of view.

Fast and the Furious' is really a postmodern Western.

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.

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.

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.

It's a privilege to go and have fun and do what you're passionate about for a living.

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.