Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Culture makes all men gentle.

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

Missionaries must not ridicule the pagan idols, nor their manner of worship; but calmly reason with them always showing the utmost benevolence; that they ought not to expose the innocent customs of the country, but as far as possible become all things to all men.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

We have no right to thrust our advanced views on our less advanced countrymen.

It is a direct blessing from Heaven, the coming of this British Gordon. ... He is superior in manner and bearing to any of the foreigners whom I have come into contact with, and does not show outwardly that conceit which makes most of them repugnant in my sight.

Successful occupation will not occur unless the special circumstances of this unusual country are heeded.

… technologies that convene different cultures do not always help them interact peaceably.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

I'm from outside most of these worlds I'm focusing on, and I feel there's an ethical approach to making these kinds of films. My biggest fear is that if you paint your characters in, you could be doing them wrong.

Wherever you go, respect the local culture or you will suffer.