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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid. Barry Jenkins

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'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

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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated. Barry Jenkins

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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

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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool. Barry Jenkins

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Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?' Barry Jenkins

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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now. Barry Jenkins

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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker. Barry Jenkins

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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field. Barry Jenkins

My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass. Barry Jenkins

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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

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The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery. Barry Levinson

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If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at such lightning speed that by the time it's found out, it has already done its damage. It's a very, very scary time that we're living in. I say it's an age of absurdity. Barry Levinson

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