Cary Fukunaga (Cary Joji Fukunaga) Quotes
Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body.
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I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.
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Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.
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I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.
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Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.
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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
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Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.
