Cary Fukunaga famous quotes

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.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Different #Stories #Casting

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

#People #Want #Information

My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Thinking #Mind #Cameras

Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Thinking #Needs #Stories

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

#Mind #Together #Collaboration

Film still looks way better than digital.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Looks #Way #Digital

I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Art #Research #Want

The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Important #Compromise #Authenticity

I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Iphone #Long #People

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Finishing #Littles #Scripts

I think it's a fascinating thing to see how lonely people are in this world and what they're looking for. It's a universal concept. So, it's something that interests me and I'll probably revisit it if I get the chance to do the child soldier film because I think it's one of the most important scripts I've written. It's just too dark to do as a film right now. I need to do something a bit different.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Lonely #Children #Dark

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

#Fighting #Quality #Clock

Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Emotional #Thinking #Impact

I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Crazy #Thinking #Trying

If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is. But when you have a murder that appears random, where the person is not someone that's within the known radius of the victim, then it's much, much more difficult to solve.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Thinking #People #Murder

The apartments are made for eels.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Eels #Made #Apartment

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

#Trophies #Apartment

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

#Important #Want #Audience

A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Character #Successful #Romance

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

#War #Years #Sierra Leone

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

#Sick #Certain #Knows

Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike, you're always learning new things, you're gonna face new challenges and when you face new challenges you'll have an answer for them.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Years #Challenges #Directors

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

#One Day #Want #Horseback

They're always surprised with what I want to do and don't want to do. I think they're surprised I don't want to do robo-tech. I don't know, it's like they want me to have a long career. And be prolific and make big movies.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Thinking #Careers #Long

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Thinking #Office #Trying

I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Country #Patriotic #Thinking