Barry Jenkins Quotes

I'm quite reflective - I listen to music, I read, I walk with Django.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

I thought, 'Oh, I'll be an independent producer. Oh, I'll be a manager.' I was going through all those things in my head, and one night, late at night, I was having what I would now describe as probably a panic attack because there were so many unknowns. An almost literal voice came into my head telling me, 'You need to write.'

I just like to write. You can't play basketball 16 hours a day, so it's just working out, working on your body, take a nap, watch some TV, watch some games, and write.

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

Everybody should just stay at home and meditate and they'd be so much happier.

Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

A good walk every day does wonders for my soul.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.