58 Quotes by John Hillcoat

I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.

'The Road' reminds me of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'

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.

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.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

Film has its own innate poetry.

For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.

I love working with ensemble groups of actors.