Cary Fukunaga

“If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.”

“'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.”

“I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.”

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

“I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.”

“My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.”

“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'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.”

“I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.”

“As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.”

“'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.”

“I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.”

“I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.”

“I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.”

“I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.”

“With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had to compress that I thought it would have been really nice to spend more time with - to spend with the characters.”

“I used to do Civil War re-enacting between the ages of 15 and 19. I was part of a unit that was considered very authentic. We would source the right wools, the right buttons for the costumes. We had the right look.”

“I think about a Richard Avedon photo series, the kind of faces he gets of real people, which I find so captivating. Fellini was also great in filling his films with this ambiance, this environment, sometimes chaotic and carnival-like, but people's faces were always amazing.”

“To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting.”

“My grandma was really sick when I was working on 'Sin Nombre' and eventually died that summer when we were finishing the film. But I was able to bring an unfinished version of the film for her to watch.”