Gavin Hood

“The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.”

“I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.”

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

“The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'”

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

“I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.”

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