Barry Jenkins Quotes
To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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God bless nannies.
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
