Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

I had never worked in television before 'Freaks and Geeks,' and 'New Girl' is the first time since that I've worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

I did 'The Commish' and an episode of 'Neon Rider,' and then I got the series called 'Street Justice,' which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of.

I feel that 'Person of Interest' is the same quality as 'Brotherhood.' I think it's one of the smartest network television shows on the air today. The audience is a wide range of individuals.

All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'

I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!

I started directing on 'The Wire.'

I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.

I always wanted to work with David Milch.

With film, there's a consistency to it, but what I like about the TV shows that I've been fortunate to do, like 'Friday Night Lights' and 'True Blood,' is that it feels like you're doing a film.

If you had ever told me that the finest film work was going to be done on television, I wouldn't have believed it.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with them before, so it was a perfect story. I love the series. I hope there's a second.

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.

I would never, ever, ever, ever say I have regretted the 'A-Team,' 'Magnum PI' or 'Murder She Wrote' or any of the others I did - and if you mention a television series, I'm sure I had a hand in it.

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.

I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.