Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

When I first found out what a show runner was, I thought it was the strangest job I had heard of in my life.

Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.

TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.

Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath. They make so many pilots, and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if you are picked up, there are so many variables. You have to get a good time slot, and you have to get promoted. And then you have to thrive in that time slot.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

Developing a series is a next step for me.

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.

Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.

What I do know is how difficult it is in this industry to get a show on the air. There's so many different stages: getting a script bought by the network, then getting a pilot made and having that pilot go to series, and then, when that series gets on the air, having people watch it.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

I organize everything. The kids' lunch to the finances to the spending to the house, groceries, everything.

A person doesn't only give money to watch a film: he also gives his time.

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.