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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 got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: About Anything Brief Could Course Expose Film Film School Good Got Had If I Could Kind Know Light Moment Needed Over School Sure Two Where Years You

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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

~Barry Jenkins

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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 appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Actor All My Work Appeared Arabic Back Black Cool Features Films French Funny Kinds Languages Me Mean Reading Really Shorts Someone Span Think Were Whether Work I Think

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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

Topics: Aspirations Carrying Control How Images Intentions Matter Our Out People Those Virtuous World

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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

Topics: Cut Cutting Down Everywhere First First Job Get Grass Grows Job Just Lawn Miami Neighborhood Out Walk You

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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 films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

~Barry Jenkins

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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

~Barry Jenkins

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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 financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

~Barry Jenkins

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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 whole other thing. I checked out.

~Barry Jenkins

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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

~Barry Jenkins

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: November 19th, 1979

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