Australian - Director | 1960 -
I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.
John Hillcoat
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Certain films, when shot digitally, the detail is like CG: you can't feel the sweat. I feel like digital is alienating. There's something superficial to digital compared to the richness of film.
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What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.
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What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as opposed to focusing on the godfathers and the guys at the top.
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Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!
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I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.
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I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.
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I love strong women.
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In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.
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Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family.
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Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.
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It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.
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