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
I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.
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.
I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.
I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.
It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.
When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.
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.
Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to make sure you make it in the right place. It also depends on time commitment; a lot of directors will make a pilot, but a series is just a whole other level of involvement.
I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.
It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.
I'm not Mexican, and I'm not Central American. I'm from California.
I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things.
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.
New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.