Latest Cary Fukunaga Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've never watched my films with an everyday audience so it was really crazy to watch people clap at the end of my film - with no one there, no actors, no people from the film. It was just a spontaneous reaction, so I thought that was probably the best compliment you could get from an audience.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Crazy, People, Everyday

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors to get your vision, but it's hard to imagine even this process... sitting here nine months later talking about the film and talking about it 20 times in one day. You don't even think about the part where you come to the set every morning and everyone's looking at you to see your mood in order to see what the day is going to be like, and the influence that you wield.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Sometimes the best set experiences make for the worst films. So, you don't want it to be too good an experience! But the bulk of your life is working with people and collaborating so you don't want anyone to be miserable on your film either. You want it to be something that people walk away from saying that it was a good experience for them and hopefully a good film. As a director, you are sort of leader of that troupe for that period of time, so you're aware of morale and your effect - how you are as a person and how that sort of trickles down to everyone else.

  Cary Fukunaga

  People, Leader, Sometimes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Nice, Focus, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I don't know what I am on set. I can be many different things on set depending on how stressful a situation is. But at the end of the day we're making movies, we're not saving the world... we're not an army, no one's lives are at risk and we're just trying to make art, so I think as long as you keep reminding yourself that's what it's about you can have fun.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Art, Fun, Army

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I just have a hard time displaying things.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Hard Times, Hard

  Source: www.esquire.com

• All I kept thinking about was, "Man, he's so relaxed onstage! I'm never going to be that relaxed! I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera."

  Cary Fukunaga

  Men, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Cary Fukunaga

  Trophies, Apartment

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Cary Fukunaga

  Teacher, Growing Up, Names

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Cary Fukunaga

  Fighting, Quality, Clock

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Eye, Hard Life, Wool

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Jobs, Thinking, Skills

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

  Cary Fukunaga

  Mean, Needs

• 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 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.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Years, Want, I Want To Be Happy

• 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

• 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

• 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

• One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Focus, Want, Pressure

• 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 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.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Writing, Thinking, Painful

  Source: collider.com