Cary Fukunaga Quotes

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

Communication and communication strategy is not just part of the game - it is the game.

The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

I always take the audience into account.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.