I didn’t really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee’s movies, I would think, ‘Where is a place for me?’ We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond. Barry Jenkins Read Quote
There were times when we didn’t have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on. Barry Jenkins Read Quote
Moonlight’ changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it. Barry Jenkins Read Quote
If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you’re gonna make something that nobody can relate to. Barry Jenkins Read Quote
Until ‘Moonlight,’ I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of ‘groundbreaking’ or ‘never before.’ We were ascribed those things. They weren’t the point. Barry Jenkins Read Quote
I’m very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man. Barry Jenkins Read Quote
I don’t choose to make movies as small as the movies I’ve made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it’s just by necessity that it ends up being that way. Barry Jenkins Read Quote
Whenever I tell people I’m from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid. Barry Jenkins Read Quote
