Cary Fukunaga

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

I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera. ”

My mom loved the old black-and-white films. ”

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet. ”

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

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season. ”

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time. ”

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

I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.' ”

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. ”