Barry Jenkins Quotes

At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.

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• At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Most Beautiful