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Barry Jenkins Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1979

Topics

Me Growing Up Think Place Growing

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John F. Kennedy

Life Today Courage Quality Past

I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.

Andrea Bocelli

Love Music People Think Important

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

Andres Serrano

Work Always Religious Felt

I want my clothes to be alluring but not uber sexy.

Suki Waterhouse

Sexy Clothes Want Uber Alluring

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Tom Stoppard

Experience Intellectual Write Out

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

Mason Cooley

Love I Love You You Box Inscription

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Music Words Sound Write Line Weight

I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'

Jonathan Groff

Beat Bros Mario Super

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

Christopher Monckton

Me Think Heights Rising Illness Any

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

Christine Lahti

Job Theatre Eye Chance Better You

It's like, hey, some people cook for a living, and some people milk cows. I write songs.

Scott Weiland

People Living Milk Write Some People

When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try,' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

Marie Helvin

Positive Grief I Am Effort Sadness