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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

~Barry Jenkins

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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 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

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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 filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.

~Barry Jenkins

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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.

~Barry Jenkins

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

~Barry Jenkins

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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.

~Barry Jenkins

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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 a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

~Barry Jenkins

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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, a political act.

~Barry Jenkins

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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

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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

~Barry Jenkins

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: November 19th, 1979

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