Cary Fukunaga Quotes

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It’s so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people‘s faces.

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I think about a Richard Avedon photo series, the kind of faces he gets of real people, which I find so captivating. Fellini was also great in filling his films with this ambiance, this environment, sometimes chaotic and carnival-like, but people’s faces were always amazing.

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You work with the communities to make films. And you just don’t go in and take over their territory.

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I’ve written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

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‘True Detective‘ would not pass The Bechdel Test.

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I’m definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don’t want to glamorize certain things.

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It’s rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.

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Collaborations aren’t easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That’s part of the experience.

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‘Victoria Para Chino,’ my 2nd-year film at NYU, gave birth to ‘Sin Nombre.’

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I’d done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

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‘Jane Eyre’ was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

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I don’t really put trophies out. I don’t keep trophies around my apartment.

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My grandma was really sick when I was working on ‘Sin Nombre’ and eventually died that summer when we were finishing the film. But I was able to bring an unfinished version of the film for her to watch.

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I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on ‘Sin Nombre.’

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Have you seen McConaughey in ‘Unsolved Mysteries?’ Even back then, it’s a great performance! And he’s mowing the lawn.

Cary Fukunaga

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s me.’

Cary Fukunaga

‘Sin Nombre’ was almost like the adolescent version of ‘Jane Eyre.’ ‘Jane Eyre’ sort of picks up where ‘Sin Nombre’ ends. It’s about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.

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It’s easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you’re – your technique is so much more exposed because there’s not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.

Cary Fukunaga

An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It’s just a lot more information.

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Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

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I want to have a nice country home one day, yeah.

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I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they’re convalescing in a Civil War hospital.

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It’s a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who’s made more films than I’ll ever make in my lifetime.

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I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the ‘East Bay,’ Oakland, CA.

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I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn’t have been able to meet.

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I love period pieces. But it’s hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we’ll see.

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I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It’s not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.

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In terms of tackling different subjects, I can’t really think of anything I wouldn’t want to try; that’s the fun of it right? Each new style brings new challenges – not that you shouldn’t focus on one and master it, but it takes so long to make a film, you just want to have some variety.

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There are elements to the 19th century which just don’t work for contemporary audiences.

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I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I’m away would be pretty handy.

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Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

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You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone‘s potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.

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The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who’s embodying it.

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I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

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My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.

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Literally, I don’t have a television. So I don’t really know what’s happening pop-culturally. I read the ‘New York Times.’ And there’s one worldwide cabin blog that I look at.

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Some directors don’t get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I’m definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.

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There’s nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.

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I used to do Civil War re-enacting between the ages of 15 and 19. I was part of a unit that was considered very authentic. We would source the right wools, the right buttons for the costumes. We had the right look.

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The problem with being a writer/director: unless you’re really disciplined, you start adding projects, and you have to make time to make them. Because you have to write them… no one else is writing them for me.

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I was a big history buff as a teenager.

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My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.

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It’s hard because there’s a part of me that wants ‘True Detective’ to win every award we’re nominated for. But I’m a huge fan of ‘Breaking Bad‘ and ‘Game of Thrones.’

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I didn’t grow up watching detective shows. I’ve never even seen an episode of ‘CSI.’

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After ‘Sin Nombre,’ I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.

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Tom Hooper had done ‘John Adams,’ and David Lynch did ‘Twin Peaks.’ I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.

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I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.

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When you have a script, and you’re discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that’s a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

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I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

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The anticipation-speculation that comes with a weekly schedule is a double-edged sword. Because people have more time to talk about things, some crazy ideas get a lot of attention.

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If you’re directing, it doesn’t really matter any more if it’s going straight to TV – what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.

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I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.

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Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home – I can work anywhere in the world.

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My mom was married to a Mexican guy – a surfer – and so we’d kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.

Cary Fukunaga

I think I learned discipline on ‘Jane Eyre.’ Charlotte Bronte’s dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre’s character, is so compelling that you didn’t have to do much with the placement of cameras.

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