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John Hillcoat
John Hillcoat
Australian Director
Born: 1960
About Love Me People Think You
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I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality. John Hillcoat
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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. John Hillcoat
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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. John Hillcoat
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For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame. John Hillcoat
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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. John Hillcoat
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There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out. John Hillcoat
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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. John Hillcoat
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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.' John Hillcoat
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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. John Hillcoat
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I love the sci-fi movies where it's from the point of view of humans in that situation... When it becomes too clever in its ideas, the cyber-punk, high-tech thing, it becomes more about something else. John Hillcoat
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I always try and find a place for Guy Pearce. The great thing about him is he's so versatile, and I wouldn't work with an actor that much if it weren't for the fact that he had so much versatility. John Hillcoat
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It's such an intense thing to make a film. John Hillcoat
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I'm an Australian. And I'm speaking generally here, but Australians in general aren't patriotic or nationalistic. Our country was built by immigrants. So, by my experience, I've seen the way immigration has transformed nations. They are the key people who quite literally build civilizations, be it culturally or musically. John Hillcoat
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When you have a major movie star, and then they're surrounded by local extras, it takes me out or makes me more conscious of what's going on, as opposed to losing myself in the movie. John Hillcoat
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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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'The Road' reminds me of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.' John Hillcoat
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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. 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. John Hillcoat
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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. John Hillcoat
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I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most. John Hillcoat
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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. 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. John Hillcoat
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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. John Hillcoat
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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! John Hillcoat
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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. John Hillcoat
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Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it. John Hillcoat
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