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Were Quotes by Cary Fukunaga

8 Were quotes by Cary Fukunaga

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Cary Fukunaga's eight short quotes use the past tense as a narrative device, hinting at his cinematic storytelling style while keeping the focus on language. This brief collection provides a quick glimpse into how he translates visual storytelling into concise prose.

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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…

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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.…

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On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't…

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My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the…

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There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other…

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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…

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When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I…

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With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had…

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The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure…

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When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen…

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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…

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My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

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If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is.…

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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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I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

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It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages…

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If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

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I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

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