Barry Jenkins quote: "I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid."

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the d...
BARRY JENKINS

I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ...
BARRY JENKINS

'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexual...
BARRY JENKINS

I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
BARRY JENKINS

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

It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I thin...
BARRY JENKINS

Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation,...
BARRY JENKINS

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possib...
BARRY JENKINS

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really ch...
BARRY JENKINS

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostraciz...
BARRY JENKINS

Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those ...
BARRY JENKINS

'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or ur...
BARRY JENKINS

My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower o...
BARRY JENKINS

We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize t...
BARRY JENKINS

Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted t...
BARRY JENKINS

Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
BARRY JENKINS

I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was f...
BARRY JENKINS

In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyr...
BARRY JENKINS

If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that no...
BARRY JENKINS

As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
BARRY JENKINS

It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if ...
BARRY JENKINS

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you ...
BARRY JENKINS

As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democr...
BARRY JENKINS

'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something e...
BARRY JENKINS

Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what...
BARRY JENKINS

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in ...
BARRY JENKINS

There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a...
BARRY JENKINS

I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy k...
BARRY JENKINS

I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and eve...
BARRY JENKINS

I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would t...
BARRY JENKINS

I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder o...
BARRY JENKINS

You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the pla...
BARRY JENKINS

My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, ...
BARRY JENKINS

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
BARRY JENKINS

As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like ...
BARRY JENKINS

How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I wa...
BARRY JENKINS

Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all th...
BARRY JENKINS

I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and tel...
BARRY JENKINS

There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always h...
BARRY JENKINS

Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on on...
BARRY JENKINS

I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my tw...
BARRY JENKINS

A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
BARRY JENKINS

As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of t...
BARRY JENKINS

I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from m...
BARRY JENKINS

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

I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins lik...
BARRY JENKINS

I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the worl...
BARRY JENKINS

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

At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A...
BARRY JENKINS

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

I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assist...
BARRY JENKINS

I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know?...
BARRY JENKINS

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
FERGUSON JENKINS

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.
KATHERINE JENKINS

If you look at the history of Wonder Woman, you look at the iconography, the images that have kept h...
PATTY JENKINS

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by t...
DAN JENKINS

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing m...
DAN JENKINS

Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest...
DAN JENKINS

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star,...
DAN JENKINS

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal lev...
FERGUSON JENKINS

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball ma...
FERGUSON JENKINS

I've been influenced by a lot of films. And a lot of them are the typical interesting, artsy fil...
PATTY JENKINS

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I a...
KATHERINE JENKINS

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
JOSH JENKINS

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
DAVID JENKINS

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would...
DAVID JENKINS

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, d...
DAVID JENKINS

Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: i...
ALLAN JENKINS

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different...
PATTY JENKINS

My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he foun...
PATTY JENKINS

When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened...
DAN JENKINS

I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as tryi...
DAN JENKINS

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to ...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all ...
KATHERINE JENKINS

First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I th...
DAN JENKINS

This transaction also provides Wachovia with the opportunity to enter the California banking market ...
BEN JENKINS

We have carefully evaluated our options and decided that -- as one of the nation's leading retail ba...
BEN JENKINS

It is not unreasonable to expect that at some point in time we will want to do some building.
BEN JENKINS

This transaction moves our auto finance business to a new level and gives us access to a new set of ...
BEN JENKINS

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised s...
ROY JENKINS

As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything...
PATTY JENKINS

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I d...
KATHERINE JENKINS

You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I...
DAN JENKINS

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enoug...
DAN JENKINS

They were a lot like we were last year. When you get here for the first time, it's tough. But I want...
ASIA JENKINS

It made them fold. With our athleticism, when we work together it is so hard to stop us. Our offense...
ASIA JENKINS

I was killing myself (by missing easy shots), and we were stopping ourselves. In the second half, th...
ASIA JENKINS

I'd be bummed if it left. It's so great to have all these elite athletes in Aspen.
ASIA JENKINS

It really helps having Tiffany in front with those long arms. It's really just teamwork.
ASIA JENKINS

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
STEPHAN JENKINS

Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden t...
PATTY JENKINS

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, a...
ROY JENKINS

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche vic...
DAN JENKINS

I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed bei...
DAN JENKINS

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone...
KATHERINE JENKINS

We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there's no one like Wonder Woman to do it.
PATTY JENKINS

I made a big mistake of my life.
ROBERT JENKINS

It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was becau...
PETER JENKINS

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-sp...
ROBERT JENKINS

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s was carried out by relatively discreet, identifiable groups, ... Te...
BRIAN JENKINS

I'll get today out of the way first before deciding on a final plan of attack, but it's probably eit...
BRIAN JENKINS

We are now dealing with many little al-Qaidas with the potential of neighborhood al-Qaidas. They may...
BRIAN JENKINS

This is not the Prussian general staff. They don't think about operations the way we think about ope...
BRIAN JENKINS

This is the way cults recruit. To a certain extent ... this is the way armies recruit.
BRIAN JENKINS

The results of the probe are disturbing, but they are not surprising,
BRIAN JENKINS

It is shocking but not a surprise. The components of these things have been seen before.
BRIAN JENKINS

If we're going to fly them, put passengers in them, luggage, freight, parcels, then we're going to m...
BRIAN JENKINS

These threats are real, ... but the increased probability of a terrorist attack does not increase th...
BRIAN JENKINS

I would suspect, ... that the odds of being killed as a result of a terrorist use of biological subs...
BRIAN JENKINS

This will show us where we're at. If we can go down there and beat Miami, we're going to be a pretty...
BRANDON JENKINS

Coach wanted us to have a game like this, to get out and get after people at the defensive end. We d...
BRANDON JENKINS

It comes with practice. I just take the ball to the middle of the floor. Coach says to take it to th...
BRANDON JENKINS

We just want to keep playing. We know the season hasn't gone the way we wanted maybe, but we also kn...
BRANDON JENKINS

We got more pressure on them, got in their face and disrupted their offense.
BRANDON JENKINS

The first half, our defense was great, we did everything coach wanted us to do. It was definitely fu...
BRANDON JENKINS

That was my assignment ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â not making it so comfortable for him.
BRANDON JENKINS

It's a little pressure, but the freshmen really don't understand yet. I'm not sure they realize we'r...
BRANDON JENKINS

We go to Rutgers (Saturday). Coach told us their arena is a mini-Kentucky, that Rutgers and Pittsbur...
BRANDON JENKINS

We wanted them to do that. We'd rather have them run the time down and let us play solid defense.
BRANDON JENKINS

I'm very, very honored to be here tonight in this facility and in this city. You cannot come to this...
BOB JENKINS

Players and the game are central components and the coach has more of a supporting role in the whole...
BOB JENKINS

He probably transported more kids home than any two coaches in the entire state of South Carolina. T...
BOB JENKINS

The kids had a great respect for him. He touched people.
BOB JENKINS

He was a beloved coach, teacher and friend; some of the students were in a state of shock. Yes, Y.C....
BOB JENKINS

Y.C. touched the lives of tens of thousands of children over the last half century. He was a great a...
BOB JENKINS

It's going to be one of those situations where you're not going to have 100 percent of the people ha...
BOB JENKINS

We want to know if it still is an effective growth model for the school system. We asked the adminis...
BOB JENKINS

In today's environment where you have to have supervision, it's beneficial to add elements of street...
BOB JENKINS

My main concern is the negative effect this will have on students who take part in college courses. ...
BOB JENKINS

We want to take the components and plug them into best-of-breed solutions, such as ratings engines. ...
BILL JENKINS

Every stop we take we think half the town has turned out and we appreciate it so much. Surprising, b...
BILL JENKINS

They've never spent anything even remotely on this scale. So the real question is going to be what k...
BILL JENKINS

He tried to derive a Southwestern influence, ... That was Bennie's style of architecture.
BILL JENKINS

dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying bona fide hillbilly.
BILL JENKINS

Promenade is the only transit-oriented development that has all the components in place that makes a...
BILL JENKINS

But when the truck came in (to Fischer), it was loaded down. When it came out, it was raised up enou...
BILL JENKINS

The concrete pole was fine for staying up. It's got steel rebar in it.
BILL JENKINS

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. ...
DAN JENKINS

I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are intere...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, ...
DAN JENKINS

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my d...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make...
DAN JENKINS

I love that duality of Wonder Woman: that she both wants peace and means peace, but when push comes ...
PATTY JENKINS

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in hi...
DAN JENKINS

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on...
DAN JENKINS

Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 The minister is th...
DANIEL JENKINS

Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of ...
DANIEL JENKINS

We are very, very public with our honor code. We want students to know before they come to the unive...
CARRI JENKINS

They offer areas of strength at the university, as well as challenges and recommendations.
CARRI JENKINS

This situation is a great concern to the university.
CARRI JENKINS

There would be a restriction on free speech if it involves a matter that would not show respect to a...
CARRI JENKINS

If their intent was to engage in that dialogue they had Monday, my question is, why did this (die-in...
CARRI JENKINS

Our hope is that it will be a respectful dialogue that takes place.
CARRI JENKINS

We do not allow campus to be used as a public forum.
CARRI JENKINS

We do not allow individuals and outside organizations to use the university as a public forum. But t...
CARRI JENKINS

We had made it very clear that visitors were welcome on campus with restrictions, but could not use ...
CARRI JENKINS

Our policies are based on the principles of religious doctrines. They are not policies that in any w...
CARRI JENKINS

The season finale is huge. It's going to be awesome. ... It wraps [the story] up mostly, but it leav...
CARTER JENKINS

We played a lot of poker.
CARTER JENKINS

It's been great, everything about it.
CARTER JENKINS

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's...
CARTER JENKINS

Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resid...
DAN JENKINS

To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.
PEGGY JENKINS

The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art.
WARD JENKINS

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw so...
WARD JENKINS

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single ...
WARD JENKINS

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
MARK JENKINS

With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Most importantly, I am thankful to Prime Minister Koizumi, ... As I said openly during my court-mart...
CHARLES JENKINS

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.
STEPHAN JENKINS

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
DAN JENKINS

In the last several years, the federal government has awarded some $11 billion in grants to federal,...
WILLIAM JENKINS

The key problem here is, and continues to be, the inability of people to put aside egos and address ...
WILLIAM JENKINS

Welcome to UNO; this is their new home, ... They're going to be OK.
WILLIAM JENKINS

I now believe the current structure can no longer survive.
WILLIAM JENKINS

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own ...
STEPHAN JENKINS

I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quit...
KATHERINE JENKINS

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not...
KATHERINE JENKINS

The walls are up and visitors can look inside. But the new replica was built with green logs and it'...
CHIP JENKINS

To me, the two things that Gal Gadot - who is an amazing actress, and she played a great Wonder Woma...
PATTY JENKINS

The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on y...
DAN JENKINS

The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitwor...
DAN JENKINS

Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at th...
DAN JENKINS

I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
DAN JENKINS

You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's so...
DAN JENKINS

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especi...
DAN JENKINS

That was my assignment — not making it so comfortable for him.
BRANDON JENKINS

It is a great source of concern when any of these procedures are not being followed. One is always g...
BRIAN JENKINS

We're here to revive a very ancient tradition where the laity are intimately involved in the designa...
JIM JENKINS

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was th...
KATHERINE JENKINS

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kans...
PATTY JENKINS

I've learned I'm not going to underestimate myself anymore; I'm going to ask more of myself.
CURTIS JENKINS

Once Al got that interception and that touchdown, I think everybody felt it was our time. When it ha...
CULLEN JENKINS

Just look at Gal Gadot when she smiles or when she meets somebody and shakes their hand. That is the...
PATTY JENKINS

I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

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