It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate. — Cary Fukunaga Character Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor. — Cary Fukunaga Age Copy Share Image
You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory. — Cary Fukunaga Cinema Copy Share Image
I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess. — Cary Fukunaga Audience Copy Share Image
Collaborations aren't easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That's part of the… — Cary Fukunaga Collaborations Copy Share Image
One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves.… — Cary Fukunaga Cities Copy Share Image
You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to… — Cary Fukunaga Actor Copy Share Image
I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just… — Cary Fukunaga Bad reviews Copy Share Image
Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful… — Cary Fukunaga Cinema Copy Share Image
To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors… — Cary Fukunaga Cinema Copy Share Image
So often at home in the West Village, I'm like, 'Why aren't I allowed a horse?' I would keep a horse in… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I've never watched my films with an everyday audience so it was really crazy to watch people clap at the end of… — Cary Fukunaga Audience Copy Share Image
Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years. — Cary Fukunaga Movie Copy Share Image
Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career. — Cary Fukunaga Career Copy Share Image
I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
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… — Cary Fukunaga Cinema Copy Share Image
I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see. — Cary Fukunaga Dramas Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure… — Cary Fukunaga Actor Copy Share Image
On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't… — Cary Fukunaga Actor Copy Share Image
It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to… — Cary Fukunaga Anxiety Copy Share Image
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