- Filmmaking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
- Framing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020