Cary Fukunaga Quotes

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

What we do for a living is not normal, and therefore, the process is not normal sometimes, and to expect it to be normal is to not understand what happens on set.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

Somehow, the process of making movies conventionally can dampen creativity because you've got to wait in line to do everything the way it's supposed to be, particularly with actors who are just hanging out waiting for the call.

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, if you enjoy doing it, you enjoy doing it.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

I do want to make powerful works of art with people, but I also just want to have fun. I've never done a romantic comedy - I'm sure it would be a blast.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.