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Cary Fukunaga

Cary Fukunaga Books

Film director

Cary Fukunaga, born on July 10, 1977, is a talented film director known for his unique style and popular works. His notable films include 'True Detective' and 'Let the Right One In'.

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“The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.”

Different Stories Imagine Versions Casting Theoretical

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“You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.”

People Want Enough Information Hopefully Tease Misinformation

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“My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.”

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“Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.”

Thinking Needs Feels Stories Film Actors Given Performances Ownership

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“Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.”

Mind Sometimes Together Causes Easy Conflict Add Collaboration Great Minds

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“Film still looks way better than digital.”

Way Looks Stills Film Digital

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“I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.”

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“The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.”

Important Millions Aspect Authenticity Compromise Edits

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“I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.”

People Long Ends Matter Stories Stuff Television Huge Divides Filmmaking Iphone Laptops

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“I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.”

Want One Day Direct Horseback

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“The apartments are made for eels.”

Made Apartment Eels

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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.”

People Young Night Cities Situation New York Cooks Every Night

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“When people start talking, things happen.”

People Happens Talking Things Happen

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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.”

Writing Firsts Stories Type Documents Screenplays Writing Stories

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“In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."”

People Feels Able Brilliant Snowboarding Ugh

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“I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.”

Years War Sierra Sierra Leone

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

Ifs Want Important Audience

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“If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.”

Ifs Want Doe One You Love Someone You Love Telling Someone You Love Them

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“Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.”

People Ifs Should Vulnerability Openness Going To Work Lulls

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“There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxieties it was going to be a complete failure, and then to have it turn into the first blockbuster.”

Want Firsts Turns Wall Anxiety Blockbuster

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“I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.”

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“It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.”

Knows World Important Fall Can Do Members Happenings

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“When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.”

Knows Certain Amount Sick

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“I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.”

Ifs Knows Bigs Historical Aspiration Epic

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“Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.”

Ideas Different Seems Pieces New York Skills Theater Excited Mediums Mysterious Frightening

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“I definitely pay attention to details. I think one of the hardest things about making a movie is that it can be scrutinized over and over again. If anything just isn't right, it's going to take you out of the film.”

Ifs Thinking Film Pay Attention Details Hardest Pay Attention Hardest Thing Attention To Detail

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“As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.”

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“It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of thing. Part of the fun of making a period film is just that playfulness. It's just like make believe when you're a child except you get to do it for a real job.”

People Believe Kind Children Real Running Jobs Film Fun Periods Horse Clothings Dressed Up Make Believe Carriages Playfulness Real Jobs

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“It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. 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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“I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.”

Thinking World Country Film Realizing Exciting Reaching Patriotic Reach Out Ambassadors Exciting Things Living Abroad

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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 and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.”

People Knows World Speak Language Lines Nice Perception Happenings County Often Is

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“I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.”

Film Terrible Titles

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“There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.”

Littles Scripts Hopefully Immortal Little Things Finishing

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“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 it is.”

Thinking Writing Hard Direct Painful

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“A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that.”

Ifs Knows Feels Stills Character Film Romance Challenges Audience Know How Successful Periods Horror Elements Understood Scary If I Could

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“One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.”

Want Film Focus Lows Pressure Casts Great Things Budgets Radar

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“Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.”

Thinking Needs Feels Important Stories Film Laughing Missing Cry Emotional Impact Ingredients Levity

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“Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.”

Thinking Want Trying Courses Proud Office Boxes Critical Box Office Acclaim

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“I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Kind Persons Hard Done Film Watches Crazy Minutes Fine If I Could

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“They're always surprised with what I want to do and don't want to do. I think they're surprised I don't want to do robo-tech. I don't know, it's like they want me to have a long career. And be prolific and make big movies.”

Thinking Knows Want Long Bigs Careers Want Me Big Movie Long Careers

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“I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.”

Want Years Want To Be Happy I Want To Be Happy

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“You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.”

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“Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike, you're always learning new things, you're gonna face new challenges and when you face new challenges you'll have an answer for them.”

Years Faces Challenges Answers Directors Chairs Riding New Things Bike New Challenges Always Learning Learning New Learning New Things

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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 that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Jobs Film Choices Next Careers Skills Pressure Outcomes Length Right Choices Make The Right Choice

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“It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.”

World Hard Shows Might Eye Fairs Hard Life Wool

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

Names Growing Up Teacher Growing Substitutes Pauses

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“You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.”

Fighting Quality Clock

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

Apartment Trophies

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“I just have a hard time displaying things.”

Hard Hard Times

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“All I kept thinking about was, "Man, he's so relaxed onstage! I'm never going to be that relaxed! I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera."”

Thinking Men Behinds Fronts Cameras Meant To Be Relaxed

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Born: July 10, 1977
Known for: Film director
Quotes: 58

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