Cary Fukunaga (Cary Joji Fukunaga) Quotes

My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.

Cary Fukunaga

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• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Week
  • France

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Language

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Fight

• There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Right
  • Interest
  • Broadway

• The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • English
  • Cricket

• I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Know
  • No Regrets

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • Me
  • Like

• Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Real
  • Night

• When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • She
  • Night
  • Better

• Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Amazing
  • Impossible
  • White

• It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Job
  • Knowledge

• Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Done
  • Together
  • Friend

• Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.

  

  Ted Hughes

• Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.

  

  Lope de Vega

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Value
  • Sense

• Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.

  

  Jack Roy
  • School
  • She
  • Wife

• It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • People
  • Daily

• 'You have been allowing challenges to destroy you instead of you to destroy challenges. When challenges come – my God has the final say, not my ability or knowledge.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Knowledge

• I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.

  

  Kiersey Clemons
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Mind
  • Lit

• My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Pleasure