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Barry Jenkins

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[Wikipedia] Barry Jenkins is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy (2008), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. He is also a member of the Chops

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Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a…

Eye

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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by…

Always

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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

Alone

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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

Idea

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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

Class

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At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this…

Beautiful

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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took…

Cinema

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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so…

Cinema

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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

City

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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.

Authentic

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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and…

Always

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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

About

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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

Boring

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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the…

Art

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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have…

Cool

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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing…

Football

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I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of…

Cinema

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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film…

Director

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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the…

Cinema

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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the…

America

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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

Always

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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself,…

Art

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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age…

Black

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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was…

Back

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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art…

Art

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