We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.
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.
I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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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.
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.
I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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.