Cary Fukunaga
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. He has received acclaim for the 2015 war drama Beasts of No Nation, in which Fukunaga was writer, director, producer, and cinematographer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 July 1977
CityOakland, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.
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.
I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.
I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.
'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.
After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.
I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.
There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.