Author Profile
Barry Jenkins
1979 • American • Director
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Collected Meditations
Showing 53 quotesYou walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.— Barry Jenkins
I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.— Barry Jenkins
I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.— Barry Jenkins
My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.— Barry Jenkins
I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.— Barry Jenkins
I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.— Barry Jenkins
My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.— Barry Jenkins
As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.— Barry Jenkins
As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.— Barry Jenkins
We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.— Barry Jenkins
How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.— Barry Jenkins
I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.— Barry Jenkins
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 room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'— Barry Jenkins
There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.— Barry Jenkins
Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.— Barry Jenkins
I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.— Barry Jenkins