When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again. Cary Fukunaga More Quotes by Cary Fukunaga More Quotes From Cary Fukunaga You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you. Cary Fukunaga mean needs 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 i-want-to-be-happy want years Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now. Cary Fukunaga skills new-york ideas I definitely pay attention to details. I think one of the hardest things about making a movie is that it can be scrutinized over and over again. If anything just isn't right, it's going to take you out of the film. Cary Fukunaga details attention thinking As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that. Cary Fukunaga taken jobs thinking It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of thing. Part of the fun of making a period film is just that playfulness. It's just like make believe when you're a child except you get to do it for a real job. Cary Fukunaga horse running jobs It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet. Cary Fukunaga nice people ideas 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 patriotic country thinking It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line. Cary Fukunaga often-is nice people I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films. Cary Fukunaga titles film terrible 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 painful writing thinking 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 pressure want 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 impact emotional thinking 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 office trying thinking 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 trying thinking 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 careers long thinking 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. Cary Fukunaga someone-you-love doe want Maybe it's too much for some people, but I think it's necessary to not sugarcoat the brutality, to not sugarcoat the actions of these children, even then, I think I could have been more severe sometimes. Cary Fukunaga company-news I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly. Cary Fukunaga bad think me work I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras. Cary Fukunaga think you discipline character
