When you’re used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that’s the first influence on my style.
Gavin Hood Quotes
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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| Birth: | 12th May, 1963 |
| Nationality: | South African |
| Profession: | Actor, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
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Gavin Hood was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a South African film director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi. He also directed the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ender's Game. He directed his first commercial short film, The Storekeeper. He directed other films include: A Reasonable Man, In Desert and Wilderness, Rendition, and Eye in the Sky. He produced only one film include: A Reasonable Man. He has written several films include: A Reasonable Man, In Desert and Wilderness, and Ender's Game. His role in several films include: Eye in the Sky, A Reasonable Man, American Kickboxer, and King Solomon's Mines.
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