I was frozen in my seat. It was the first time I had ever seen people like me on the screen.
More Quotes from 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.Gavin Hood
I want to thank my fellow nominees, who I've become deep friends with. We may have foreign-language films, but our stories are the same as your stories. They're about the human heart and emotion.
Gavin Hood
My parents have been car-jacked. I have been mugged. We all know what it is like. But do you write a story about the way it is, or the way it should, or could, or needs to be
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.
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.
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.
Gavin Hood
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