Gary Ross
Gary Ross
Gary Ross is an American film director, writer, and author. He directed the film The Hunger Games, as well as Pleasantville and the Best Picture nominated Seabiscuit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 November 1956
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
love movies obviously
Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'
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I thought it would be interesting to hear a conversation between filmmakers instead of just a filmmaker gassing on about his own movie. Steven is so literate about this stuff and a great film journalist in his own right and a good friend, so it worked out. He also loved the movie and volunteered to do it.
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.
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They have to get compliance in order. With six million barrels a day of spare capacity they don't have any credibility in the market unless they can control spare capacity,
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This is just as much fun as playing in the water. It seems like there is a lot of bickering going on. Seems to be the wrong time. People need to be doing more stuff like this.
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Once they lose that credibility they lose the ability to control prices and that credibility has started to slip away.
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I left the conversation pretty much up to him. That way I would be fresher, and he's so good at this. I didn't want to prepare or spin anything. I just jumped in and let him take it wherever it went.
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It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.