John Hillcoat Quotes
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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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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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I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.
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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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I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.
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I have very mixed feelings about big corporations. Oftentimes, they're more troublesome than not.
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When you're working with an ensemble, I think you really need different energies because you don't have much time with each character to make them feel real. You want strong personalities that are very different.
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I kept hearing about this incredible guy called Tom Hardy. I started watching his work, and I was awestruck - he was amazing.
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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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There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.
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The last time I played video games was 'Space Invaders.'
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I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.
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I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.
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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 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.
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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.'
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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.
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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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It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.
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I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.
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I have always thought of films as stories for the world.
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For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.
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I love strong women.
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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.