Seth Gordon
Seth Gordon
Seth Gordon is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and film editor. He has produced and directed for film and television, including for PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations Staff 1% for Development Fund. His films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 July 1974
CountryUnited States of America
tables dinner taught
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
thinking people mortgage
People who can't afford their mortgages and have to renegotiate with the bank or something gets repossessed after you worked your whole life. You follow the rules and you do the right thing and you still get screwed. That's what I think a lot of Americans are.
feet trying way
I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.
simple media talking
There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.
humility healthy amount
I have a healthy amount of humility.
ideas expecting
Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.
character stories comedy
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
cyber-warfare crime hackers
I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
who-i-am identity stories
I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.
thinking documentaries unexpected
I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.
reality rooted
The best movies are rooted in reality.
philosophy evil empires
There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
real home thinking
I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.
order views done
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.