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Cary Fukunaga Biography

Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) 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 received acclaim for the 2015 war drama Beasts of No Nation, in which he was writer, director, producer, and cinematographer.

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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.

Emotional, Impact, Levity, Potential, Think, Thinking

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.

Bad, Liked, Make, Office, Thinking, Trying

Sometimes the best set experiences make for the worst films. So, you don't want it to be too good an experience! But the bulk of your life is working with people and collaborating so you don't want anyone to be miserable on your film either. You want it to be something that people walk away from saying that it was a good experience for them and hopefully a good film. As a director, you are sort of leader of that troupe for that period of time, so you're aware of morale and your effect - how you are as a person and how that sort of trickles down to everyone else.

Aware, Experience, Leader, People, Person, Sometimes

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.

Cities, Cook, New York, Night, York, Young

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

Amount, Certain, Knows, Sick

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

Aspirations, Big, Bigs, Epic, Historical, Money

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

Leone, Movie, Sierra, Sierra Leone, War, Years

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.

Frightening, Ideas, Mysterious, New York, Skills, Working

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.

Focus, Pressure, Sense, Under, Want

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.

Anxiety, Complete, Movies, Turn, Wall, Want

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, Compromise, Authenticity, See, Times

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

Adds, Causes, Collaboration, Mind, Together

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

Everything, Life, Mean, Needs, Time

When people start talking, things happen.

Happens, People, Start, Talking, Things

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.

Character, Romance, Scary, Sort, Successful

When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors to get your vision, but it's hard to imagine even this process. . . sitting here nine months later talking about the film and talking about it 20 times in one day. You don't even think about the part where you come to the set every morning and everyone's looking at you to see your mood in order to see what the day is going to be like, and the influence that you wield.

Looking, Months, Morning, Process, Thinking, Writing

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.

Know, Line, Nice, Often Is, People, World

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.

Horse, Jobs, Making, Real, Running, See

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

Audience, Important, Read, Say, Want

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.

Casting, Different, Part, Stories, Versions

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