- Film Festival
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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