Barry Jenkins Quotes

It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.

I've lived an easy life, the life you dream about. And at that time I thought it was normal, but it's so far from normal.

Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space - that sort of thing.

I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Can you even begin to fathom the arduous, debasing journey people endure to serve you comfortably in the luxury you are so accustomed to?

The leadership of these unions lead a lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Opulence is a crime

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!

I always thought it is a bit of a balloon, how rich we are.

I don't need a lot: I've got a telly, a computer - what else can you get me?