Cary Fukunaga Quotes

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things.

In TV, you have no time and sort of just carpet bomb the scene with as many angles as possible as quickly as possible and find it in the edit.

I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.'

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

I was a big history buff as a teenager.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.

After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.

It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.

Film still looks way better than digital.

I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.

I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.

The apartments are made for eels.

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.

I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.

You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.

To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.

I'm not Mexican, and I'm not Central American. I'm from California.

New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

I've certainly never been dying to go to England my entire life.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.

I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

I want to have a nice country home one day, yeah.

When people start talking, things happen.

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

Collaborations aren't easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That's part of the experience.

I just have a hard time displaying things.

I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

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

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it ...

Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.

It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.

My friends just make fun of me in some shape or form.

Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.