Quotes by Cary Fukunaga

About Cary Fukunaga:

Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American film director, writer, and cinematographer. He is known for writing and directing the 2009 film Sin Nombre, the 2011 film Jane Eyre and for directing and executive producing the first season of the HBO series True Detective, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.
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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.

Cary Fukunaga

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.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm not Mexican, and I'm not Central American. I'm from California.

Cary Fukunaga

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

Cary Fukunaga

My friends just make fun of me in some shape or form.

Cary Fukunaga

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

Cary Fukunaga

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

Cary Fukunaga

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

Cary Fukunaga

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

Cary Fukunaga

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

Cary Fukunaga

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

Cary Fukunaga

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.

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 inform...

Cary Fukunaga

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

Cary Fukunaga

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

Cary Fukunaga

To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting.

Cary Fukunaga

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

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.

Cary Fukunaga

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.

Cary Fukunaga

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.

Cary Fukunaga

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

Cary Fukunaga

Author Bio

  • NameCary Fukunaga
  • DescriptionAmerican film director, writer, and cinematographer
  • BornJuly 10, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Cinematographer
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award