Author: 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.

To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.

- Barry Jenkins

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

- Barry Jenkins

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

- Barry Jenkins

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

- Barry Jenkins

The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

- Barry Jenkins

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.

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.

- Barry Jenkins

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

- Barry Jenkins

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