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.
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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.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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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.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
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Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.
