Barry Jenkins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
-
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-
I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
-
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
-
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
-
I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
-
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
-
There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
-
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
-
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
-
I started cooking out of middle school depression.
-
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
-
Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
-
I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
-
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
-
As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
-
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
-
The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
-
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
-
I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.
-
The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
-
When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.
-
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
-
I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
