Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

I think the most important part of anyone creating videos or creating anything is just being genuine and having it be true to what you want to do and who you are.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing.

There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.