Barry Jenkins Quotes

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

I love having made a movie.

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.

I'm not somebody who can tell if the song is good enough to be pushed until I hear what it sounds like after all the bells and whistles are put on it.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.