Barry Jenkins Quotes

I really want to work with Hugh Jackman and also Steven Spielberg.

I made my film debut in 1973.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

I've been so involved with TV shows, I've been unavailable for films, which is my dream.

I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;' I've been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

I've directed independent film.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.