Barry Jenkins Quotes

As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.

Barry Jenkins

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LovePeopleProcessToolsCinema

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

Joe Rogan

FunnyMindNightSpeakThinkLaugh

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.

Jessica Lowndes

LoveCityEnoughPicnicPhoneGet

Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience's part.

Jeff Zucker

ChangeStoryAttentionClimate Change

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Robert Burns

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I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

Mike Wallace

YouHopelessAshamedKeepWorking

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

Jude Deveraux

LoveArtArchitectureDrawingHouse

I think fundamentally, I had to make a decision really on whether this was a film about the past or the present. And 'The Act Of Killing' is a film about the present.

Joshua Oppenheimer

DecisionPastThinkPresentAct

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Douglas William Jerrold

HeartReligionKnees

I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.

Christopher Guest

FoolYourselfThinkingYouBuying

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

Bonnie Blair

CompetitionMeEnjoyLongLostKnow

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

Ashthon Jones

EverythingExistenceBigFirm

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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