58 Quotes by John Hillcoat

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.

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.

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.

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.

The last time I played video games was 'Space Invaders.'

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.

It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.

Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.