Cary Fukunaga Films Quotations

'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 was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

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.

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.