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Cary Fukunaga

Profession : Director

Birth : July 10, 1977

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

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

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I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.

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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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To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting.

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

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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'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

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I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

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I binge write, basically. I do a lot of prep, research, setup. I'll have a pretty detailed outline. Sort of like a beat outline. And then I'll add little notes and dialogue ideas, and I'll just create a 20-page document.

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I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

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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.

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

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'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.

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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 really block a scene in a traditional way.

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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'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

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One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of the film because I'm thinking that all these people look like I've seen them in a cafe in Los Angeles.

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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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