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• ‟ Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.

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• ‟ 'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.

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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.

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• ‟ How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.

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• ‟ As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

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• ‟ I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.

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