Cary Fukunaga Quotes

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

Only you can control your future.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'