Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

I liked the whole process of creating on set. It's almost like creating magic. The work that the camera guys are doing at the same time, the lighting... all of the people working in their departments to make one thing.

Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.

Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

The color grading in 'Peaky' is a huge, huge element of the show's distinctive style, you know?

Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.

Every big-budget film is powered by a director's vision. I blindly follow the instructions of my director, believe in him, and deliver what he exactly wants from me.