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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
~ Gavin Hood
Also
Appropriate
Balance
Central
Character
Fabulous
Game
Opportunities
Spectacle
Tremendous
Where
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
~ Gavin Hood
Because
Bothers
Focus
Lenses
Out
Things
Use
Wider
You
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
~ Gavin Hood
Although
Became
Book
Every
Famous
Finance
Get
Hard
Holding
I Think
Made
Much
Only
Onto
Period
Playwright
Pretty
Problem
Producers
Published
Setting
Then
Think
Very
Written
Year
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For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.
~ Gavin Hood
Change
Dialogue
Dynamic
Emotion
End
Feel
Feels
First
Game
Hopefully
Invent
Lake
Like
Me
Order
Put
Results
Scene
Then
Works
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
~ Gavin Hood
About
Around
Being
Know
Learn
Me
Nose
Poke
Privileges
Worlds
Writer
You
Your
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I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.
~ Gavin Hood
About
African
Choose
Cynical
Exposed
Eyes
Know
Like
Many
Open
Question
Some
Sort
South
Violence
Whether
Who
Wide
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I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
~ Gavin Hood
Also
Doing
Effects
Fortunate
Got
Huge
Huge Number
Learned
Lot
Number
Sense
Shots
Very
Visual
Wolverine
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I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
~ Gavin Hood
Directing
Forget
I Think
Just
Lot
Management
People
Production
Real
Size
Think
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
~ Gavin Hood
Drafted
Friend
Lost
Spent
Two
War
Years
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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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BirthDate
12 May, 1963
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South Africa
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