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 Read Quote
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting. Gavin Hood Read Quote
You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences – whether they know it or not – most want an emotional connection to character. Gavin Hood Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production. Gavin Hood Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don’t know. Gavin Hood Read Quote
I learned a lot doing ‘Wolverine,’ and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots. Gavin Hood Read Quote
In the early ’90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When ‘Tsotsi’ presented itself, I thought, ‘This is not a world I grew up in, but I’ve spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.’ Gavin Hood Read Quote
What’s genius about ‘Gravity’ is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background. Gavin Hood Read Quote
