Cary Fukunaga Quotes

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Cary Fukunaga

Profession : Director

Birth : July 10, 1977

I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.

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New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

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In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves. This is the only city I've ever lived in where I eat out every night.

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No, ramen's not good for you. But in Japan, our favorite thing to do after drinking all night, especially in Sapporo where it's freezing cold, is to go to the ramen place at two, three in the morning.

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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 storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure out the blocking in a scene, and then from there, we cover it.

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

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

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

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I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

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

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

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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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To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated vigorously as a Civil War re-enactor through most of my teenage years, traveling across the country to participate in large scale reenactments - grandiose plays enacted by over weight history buffs and war enthusiasts alike.

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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 began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.

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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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I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

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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.

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