Cary Fukunaga Quotes

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.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Film still looks way better than digital.

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

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

When people start talking, things happen.

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 started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."

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

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

I just have a hard time displaying things.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The apartments are made for eels.

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

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

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