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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
~ Gavin Hood
Adapted
Being
Directing
Early
Early Work
Felt
Films
Independent
Independent Films
Initially
Integral
Low-Budget
Me
Myself
Often
Prepared
Process
Really
Then
Used
Very
Way
Work
Worked
Writing
Writing Process
Written
Wrote
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In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
~ Gavin Hood
Course
Event
Gene
Happens
Itself
Lore
Must
Mutant
Mutation
Post
Puberty
Something
Then
Traumatic
You
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
~ Gavin Hood
About
AIDS
Deal
Did
Dramas
Early
Educational
Films
Great
Great Deal
Grew
Half
Half Years
Hired
HIV
Itself
Other
Past
Presented
Researching
Spent
Then
Thought
Time
Two
Up
World
Write
Writing
Years
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
~ Gavin Hood
Better
Creative
Disagreement
Myth
Necessarily
Produce
Result
Sometimes
Think
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
~ Gavin Hood
Audiences
Bad
Bad Guy
Big
Challenge
Does
Exciting
Game
Gets
Good
Good Guy
Guy
How
Just
Little
Most
Moves
Movies
Popcorn
Respond
Revenge
Right
See
Sets
Simple
Something
Terrifying
World
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
~ Gavin Hood
Against
Camera
Elephant
Experience
Father
Film
First
Game
Lens
Much
Reserve
Sit
Some
Still
Through
Very
Wait
Waiting
Watching
Whatever
Will
Would
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
~ Gavin Hood
Actor
Include
Live
Medium
Pictures
Tools
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
~ Gavin Hood
Effectively
Explore
Film
Hours
How
Long
Many
Part
Themes
Tricky
Two
You
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
~ Gavin Hood
Any
Build
Excess
Expensive
Find
First
Hire
Location
Lot
Means
Money
Prize
Production
Save
Serve
Sets
Then
Will
You
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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
~ Gavin Hood
Adapting
Another
Ask
Asked
Be True
Book
Character
Create
Describe
How
Like
Look
Medium
Myself
Never
Painting
Person
Question
Sculpture
Something
Soul
Spirit
True
Why
Would
You
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The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.
~ Gavin Hood
Anti-Semitic
Art
Artists
Because
Created
Decide
Flawed
Going
Great
Greater
He
Heights
Listen
Many
Music
Often
People
Reality
Richard
Risen
Than
Very
Wagner
Who
Works
You
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
~ Gavin Hood
About
Buy
Convince
Doing
Everybody
Filmmaking
Going
Gonna
Hope
Idea
Ideas
Know
Morning
Own
Should
Truth
Trying
Two
Work
You
Your
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
~ Gavin Hood
About
Any
Common
Economic
Every
Get
Go
Greedy
Humanity
Kind
Level
Life
People
Poor
Rich
Street
Those
Thread
Through
Truth
Whether
Who
You
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
~ Gavin Hood
Always
Bad
Both
Commit
Compassion
Drawn
Good
Great
Humans
Mixture
Theme
Violence
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
~ Gavin Hood
About
Actor
Background
Best
Close
Genius
Gravity
Ground
Middle
Middle Ground
Works
You
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
~ Gavin Hood
Achieve
Compassion
Empathy
Hopefully
Learn
Some
Sort
Stories
Understanding
Watch
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When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.
~ Gavin Hood
Capture
Emotional
First
I Think
Impact
Influence
Lens
Looking
Moment
Moving
Picture
Style
Think
Through
Used
You
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You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.
~ Gavin Hood
Audiences
Beauty
Certain
Character
Connection
Emotional
Experience
Ideas
Innovative
Know
Length
Most
Movies
Really
Sustain
Time
Visual
Want
Whether
Which
You
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For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
~ Guy Spier
Attaining
Clarity
Detachment
Emotional
Intellectual
Investing
Most
People
Requires
Tough
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From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
~ Guy Spier
Business
Business World
Change
From Time To Time
Gandhi
Itself
Kind
King
Like
Luther
Mandela
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
People
Person
Personalities
Really
Sees
Time
Warren
Warren Buffett
Way
Who
World
You
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