- 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
I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.
- Film Festival
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
- Beach
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020