Cary Fukunaga (Cary Joji Fukunaga) Quotes

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Israel

• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Think
  • Free
  • Less

• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Failure
  • New

• A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Book
  • Night
  • Stand

• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Know
  • Memory
  • Survival

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Mystery
  • DNA

• The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Nature
  • Community
  • Ukrainian

• When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Me
  • Loved

• A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • World
  • Character
  • America

• Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • May
  • War

• I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

  

  Donald Sutherland

• Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.

  

  John Searle
  • Writing

• I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Live
  • Future
  • Intend

• I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • War
  • Years