Australian - Director | 1960 -
I consider myself a humanist. Even if I do very dark worlds, I try to make those characters real humans as opposed to just cartoons.
John Hillcoat
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Even on a large ensemble where their parts are relatively small - because having ten main characters obviously affects their screen time - the thing that attracts great actors is when there is that challenge to get some reality into something.
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I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.
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I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.
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I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.
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The last time I played video games was 'Space Invaders.'
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The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian cookery writers.
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It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.
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Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.
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I like to keep a calm set.
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I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.
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The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.
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