Barry Jenkins Quotes
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.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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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.
