John Hillcoat Quotes
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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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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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I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.
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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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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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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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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 have very mixed feelings about big corporations. Oftentimes, they're more troublesome than not.
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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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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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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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I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.
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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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I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.
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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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The last time I played video games was 'Space Invaders.'
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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.
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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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For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.
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I have always thought of films as stories for the world.
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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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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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I love strong women.