I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things… — Cary Fukunaga Film Copy Share Image
You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you. — Cary Fukunaga Life Copy Share Image
After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be… — Cary Fukunaga Cinema Copy Share Image
In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I binge write, basically. I do a lot of prep, research, setup. I'll have a pretty detailed outline. Sort of like a… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The… — Cary Fukunaga Budgets Copy Share Image
I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department.… — Cary Fukunaga Art Copy Share Image
In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves.… — Cary Fukunaga Cities Copy Share Image
You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to… — Cary Fukunaga Actor Copy Share Image
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… — Cary Fukunaga Chance Copy Share Image
I don't know what I am on set. I can be many different things on set depending on how stressful a situation… — Cary Fukunaga Army Copy Share Image
I think about a Richard Avedon photo series, the kind of faces he gets of real people, which I find so captivating.… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach… — Cary Fukunaga Beach Copy Share Image
I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.' — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to… — Cary Fukunaga Film Copy Share Image
I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be… — Cary Fukunaga Cinema Copy Share Image
I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it. — Cary Fukunaga Aspiration Copy Share Image
