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Gavin Hood Quotes
«When you make a little film without stars and not in English, you [just] hope you get into international festivals, so we didn't know if we'd get accepted in competition in Edinburgh or Toronto. Each [one seemed to bring] attention to the film to audiences around the world. We [originally] just wanted it to play in London, New York and Los Angeles like most small films do.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«This may sound melodramatic but I have never, ever worked so hard. The film will be released in a different country every week for the next six weeks. I've just come back from Germany, France and Sweden to be in LA for the nominations and to speak to the American press.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«The first question after every screening is, 'Where can I buy the soundtrack?', and that definitely helps the movie.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«When you don't have Tom Cruise, you need some help.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«I'm in Los Angeles, and like almost everyone in this crazy business of ours, I watched on TV bleary-eyed. Being the last film to be announced [in the category], my heart was pounding. One isn't quite prepared for something like this.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«We arranged a meeting in Los Angeles with big name stars, but I had to drop the idea. I wanted to film in the local Soweto dialect that only Soweto youth can speak and believed that shooting in any other language would dilute the impact of the film.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«Although it seems to be a ghetto movie, it very quickly becomes a much more intimate story, the story of this young, teenage, lost, crazy, out-of-control kid and a baby that he hides from his friends.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«One of the struggles and one of the exciting things for South African filmmakers is: What stories are we allowed to tell? I hope for the industry that more and more, it will tell whatever stories it likes.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«I was frozen in my seat. It was the first time I had ever seen people like me on the screen.»
Author: Gavin Hood
«I feel very, very proud to hold this (Oscar) because it tells me, and all of us at home, that we can do it.»
Author: Gavin Hood