Cary Fukunaga

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital. ”

The problem with being a writer/director: unless you're really disciplined, you start adding projects, and you have to make time to make them. Because you have to write them... no one else is writing them for me. ”

You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory. ”

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences. ”

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

Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world. ”