11 Gavin Hood Quotes for You to Enjoy

Gavin Hood

South African Director

Born: May 12, 1963

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Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

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

You Focus Out Bothers Because Lenses Use Things Wider

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

Finance Book Problem Made Year Holding Every Think Playwright Setting Pretty Only Onto Written Period Although Became Very Get Famous Then Much Producers Hard Published

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

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

You First Picture Looking Style Think Impact Through Emotional Influence Moving Lens Used Moment Capture

My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors. Gavin Hood

Live Medium Tools Pictures Include Actor

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

Myself Character You Soul Book Be True Painting Adapting Medium Would Spirit Something Never True Like Look Another How Question Person Ask Asked Create Sculpture Describe Why

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war. Gavin Hood

War Lost Spent Years Friend Drafted Two

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

Work Myself Me Writing Films Early Work Way Independent Independent Films Directing Writing Process Written Wrote Felt Integral Very Often Being Process Low-Budget Then Worked Really Used Initially Prepared Early Adapted

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

Eyes Cynical Some About Open Like Know Sort South Question African Whether Choose Who Many Exposed Wide Violence

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