In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.

Barry Jenkins

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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.

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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

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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.

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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

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