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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TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
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Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
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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.
