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
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'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.
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 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.
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.
Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.
I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.
After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'
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.