Barry Jenkins Quotes
As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
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Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.
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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.
