Cary Fukunaga

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

“There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.”

“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.”

“I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end.”

“It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.”

“I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras.”

“There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling. It didn't necessarily have to move the plot forward, but it had to add tone or add to the overall feeling.”

“Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.”

“I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.”

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

“No, ramen's not good for you. But in Japan, our favorite thing to do after drinking all night, especially in Sapporo where it's freezing cold, is to go to the ramen place at two, three in the morning.”

“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. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.”

“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.”

“It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.”

“Literally, I don't have a television. So I don't really know what's happening pop-culturally. I read the 'New York Times.' And there's one worldwide cabin blog that I look at.”

“It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.”

“One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of the film because I'm thinking that all these people look like I've seen them in a cafe in Los Angeles.”

“Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.”

“Casting directors I don't think are the best in Mexico at street casting. Whereas, I think, in New York and in L.A., that's more common; not so in Mexico. So it's up to you as a director in a lot of ways to go out and do that.”

“I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.”