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The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

~Gavin Hood

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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

~Gavin Hood

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For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.

~Gavin Hood

Topics: Change Dialogue Dynamic Emotion End Feel Feels First Game Hopefully Invent Lake Like Me Order Put Results Scene Then Works

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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

~Gavin Hood

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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

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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

~Gavin Hood

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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

~Gavin Hood

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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

~Gavin Hood

Topics: Adapted Being Directing Early Early Work Felt Films Independent Independent Films Initially Integral Low-Budget Me Myself Often Prepared Process Really Then Used Very Way Work Worked Writing Writing Process Written Wrote

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Director

Born: May 12th, 1963

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