“Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I…” — Barry Jenkins

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

I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.

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.

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.