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• It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of thing. Part of the fun of making a period film is just that playfulness. It's just like make believe when you're a child except you get to do it for a real job.

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  Running, Horse, Jobs

  Source: collider.com

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• As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.

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  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I definitely pay attention to details. I think one of the hardest things about making a movie is that it can be scrutinized over and over again. If anything just isn't right, it's going to take you out of the film.

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  Thinking, Details, Attention

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Different, Stories, Casting

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Film still looks way better than digital.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Looks, Way, Digital

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

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• I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Iphone, Long, People

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

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• In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves. This is the only city I've ever lived in where I eat out every night.

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  New York, Night, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When people start talking, things happen.

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  Talking, People, Happens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

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  Writing, Stories, Firsts

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

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  People, Should, Going To Work

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.

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  New York, Skills, Ideas

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxieties it was going to be a complete failure, and then to have it turn into the first blockbuster.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Wall, Anxiety, Want

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

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  Epic, Historical, Bigs

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.

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  Film, Greater

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Skills

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• All I kept thinking about was, "Man, he's so relaxed onstage! I'm never going to be that relaxed! I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera."

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  Men, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.

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  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't know what I am on set. I can be many different things on set depending on how stressful a situation is. But at the end of the day we're making movies, we're not saving the world... we're not an army, no one's lives are at risk and we're just trying to make art, so I think as long as you keep reminding yourself that's what it's about you can have fun.

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  Art, Fun, Army

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sometimes the best set experiences make for the worst films. So, you don't want it to be too good an experience! But the bulk of your life is working with people and collaborating so you don't want anyone to be miserable on your film either. You want it to be something that people walk away from saying that it was a good experience for them and hopefully a good film. As a director, you are sort of leader of that troupe for that period of time, so you're aware of morale and your effect - how you are as a person and how that sort of trickles down to everyone else.

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  People, Leader, Sometimes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors to get your vision, but it's hard to imagine even this process... sitting here nine months later talking about the film and talking about it 20 times in one day. You don't even think about the part where you come to the set every morning and everyone's looking at you to see your mood in order to see what the day is going to be like, and the influence that you wield.

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  Morning, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've never watched my films with an everyday audience so it was really crazy to watch people clap at the end of my film - with no one there, no actors, no people from the film. It was just a spontaneous reaction, so I thought that was probably the best compliment you could get from an audience.

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  Crazy, People, Everyday

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I just have a hard time displaying things.

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  Hard Times, Hard

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.

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  Nice, Often Is, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

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  Titles, Film, Terrible

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.

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  Country, Patriotic, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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