35 Quotes by Riley Stearns

The script for 'The Art of Self-Defense,' to be fair, I knew going into it that it was going to be a hard movie to get made.

My perspective is a white man's perspective and nothing else. I can't speak for anyone else or say something I'm not versed in.

I went to UT in Austin for a year as an undeclared liberal arts student. After that year I applied to the film program but didn't get in so I dropped out and moved out to L.A.

When I was nineteen, I moved to L.A.

For me, I never look down at my characters.

I'm definitely not making movies solely for myself. That's something that I hear people say in the past, all they care about is that they like what they're making. They don't care what other people think. I think that's a disservice to the project and to the people that are working on it.

I go back home for Christmas every year. Inevitably, somebody from my family will say, 'How's the karate going?' I've told them a million times I do jiu-jitsu, but it's always, 'This is Riley. He does karate.' They're very different art forms!

I really like films that don't let the score influence the tone too much.

As long as you're a good person and you're doing things that don't hurt other people, whoever you are, just embrace that.