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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 sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: America Because Become Black Certain Certain Way Class Commentary Experience Heavy Interesting Moonlight Part Parts Sum Think Through Way I Think

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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 work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Actually Art Because Created Detrimental Differently Fallacy Frame Framing Good Good Art Hollywood Inherently Just Like Nothing People Them Think Too Way Work I Think

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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 all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: About Always Change Engaged Everyone Folks Most Productive Putting Something Version World

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In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Cats Down Emotion Fast Gets Hip-Hop Just Literally Lyrics Mean Miss Pace Saying Slow Sometimes Things Think Yearning You

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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Everything Explained Things Very Way Work

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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Always Around Beautiful Black Built Cinema Dull Film Growing Growing Up Light Little Lot Memory Miami Old Over Placed Powder Skin Things Those Up Were White Years 100 Years

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

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Barry Boring Coffee Damn Like Likes Long Making Reading Walking Walks Writing

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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Amazing Better Film Literature Medium Much Relay Think I Think

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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Been Cleaned Everything Festival Film Film Festival Grew Kid Make Popcorn Since Toilets Up Used Usher Worked

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I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Anything Kept Kid Kind Know Known Like Myself Neighborhood Tough Yeah You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: November 19th, 1979

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