Australian - Director | 1960 -
'The Road' reminds me of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'
John Hillcoat
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My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.
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Film has its own innate poetry.
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For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.
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I love working with ensemble groups of actors.
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I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
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There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.
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We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.
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Radiohead showed a real affinity to being bold with visual imagery, so it came as no surprise when Jonny Greenwood did 'There Will Be Blood.'
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Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
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I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.
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Any way you want to slice it, the thing about the apocalypse is, since the beginning of time, it's the projection of mankind's worst fear. The day that, as a race, our number is up.
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