Explore Quotes by Cary Fukunaga

I want to have a nice country home one day, yeah.

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.

It's hard because there's a part of me that wants 'True Detective' to win every award we're nominated for. But I'm a huge fan of 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.'

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.

Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

I'm not Mexican, and I'm not Central American. I'm from California.

I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way.

Literally, I don't have a television. So I don't really know what's happening pop-culturally. I read the 'New York Times.' And there's one worldwide cabin blog that I look at.

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.

It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.

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

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.