Cary Fukunaga Quotes

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

I've never played it safe on my own music.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.

My faith in my filmmaking changed on the heels of 'Titan.' It allowed me to pursue things that I previously would have questioned.

I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.