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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Phenomenal
Godfather
Obviously
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There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Kids
Gary
People
Team
Two
People Two People Two
Two People
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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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Drawn
Tend
Trained
To Love
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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
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Important
Thinking
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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Dug
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
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Computer
Rhyme
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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Journey
Children
Healing
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You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.
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Character
Depth
Emotional
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Teeth
Work People Who
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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Ambitious
Breadth
Handle
Seems
Tone
Wide
Fanciful
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Instruments
Reality
Thinking
Instrument
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Black And White
Color
Vivid
Dreams Always People
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Digital
Greater
Little Bit
Range
Camera
Dynamic
Particularly
Push
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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.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Chaplin
Grace
Matched
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Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Believe
Drs
World
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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Blew
Dr
Favorite Movies
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
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Doe
Fence
Simplify
Want
World
Complex
Picket
Troubling
Wants
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I have some favorites. 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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Grace
Mean
Thinking
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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Imagination
Disappear
Doors
Empowerment
Invites
Much
Blows
Dr
Off
The Doors
Ultimately
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As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Bed
Meaningful
Memories
Reading
Sitting
Time Goes By
Aloud
Edge
Goes
Mental
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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.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Rhyme
Sound
Wonderful
Writing
Meaning
Meaning Of
Shape
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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Complexity
Drain
Harmoniously
Nuances
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We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Embrace
Scared
Scary
Fuller
Repress
Richer
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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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Finished
Reader
End Of The Day Day End
Directly
End Of The Day
Finished Product
Product
Wonderful Thing
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Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.
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Movie
Animated
Hundred
Twelve
Years
Years Ago
Pretty
Few
Plan
Tale
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Entertainment
Profitable
Family Movies Look
Discretionary
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As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Directors
Needs
Writing
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Endure
Epic
Fairy
Tales
Works
Explore
Fairy Tales
Great Thing
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Myth
Normal
Our World
Tv
Reed
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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.
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Fence
Nostalgia
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You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Watching Television
Shared
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Anarchy
Confusion
Example
Instability
Moral
People
Too Much
Began
Full
Examples
Lead
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Kids
Book
Debt
Gratitude
Harry Potter
Internet
Series
Created
Depths
Disappeared
Era
Feat
Generation
Harry
Owes
Potter
Readers
Rowling
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If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Geography
Opening
Point Of View
Guys
Private
Ryan
View
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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Berlin
Massive
Open Spaces
Red
Seats
Vertical
Wide
Project
Gate
Large
Soaring
Spaces
Square
Tend
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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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Armageddon
Raised
Safe
Spectrum
Fail
Haunted
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Directors
Needs
Tables
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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Dialogue
Dinner
Dinner Table
Electricity
Scene
Director
Maintained
Table
Throughout
Toughest
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Capitol
Games
Hunger
Slick
Hunger Games
Piece
Putting
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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Complexity
Contradiction
Eras
Fence
Generations
My Generation
Nostalgia
Scary
Uncertain
Era
False
Generation
Picket
Something Else
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Adopted
Common
First Time
Harry Potter
Modern Science
Science Fiction
Theme
Dune
Grown
Harry
Mastered
New Religion
Potter
Protagonist
Shares
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There is no right way to live. You preclude a lot of life by trying to conform to that kind of ideal or stereotype. And it's a natural inclination in a world where it's so complex and so occasionally valueless, morally bankrupt, and chaotic that we want to reach back to something in our past.
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Past
Trying
World
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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?'
Gary Ross / Film Director
Games
Harry Potter
Hunger
Phenomenon
Valuable
Wonder
Love Movies People
Act
Turning
Creates
Read
Harry
Hunger Games
Potter
Role
To Love
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Catching
Consideration
Decided
Despite
Direct
Fire
Media
Speculation
Writer
Simply
Production
Prep
Recent
Schedule
Tight
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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.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Journey
Voice
Adequately
Full
Fascinates
Grow Up
Maybe
Meet
Obviously
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Crash
Fall
Mortality
Nascar
Protection
Rate
World People Know
Bar
Cage
Sport
Happen
Per
Tremendously
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Neighborhood
Thrilling
Yearning
Time Good World
Forces
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Empowered
Explanation
Games
Hunger
Professional Life
Remarkable
Results
Supportive
Life Experience Me
Backed
Beyond
Franchise
Happiest
Hunger Games
Manner
Professional
Requires
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Environment
Fascism
Masculinity
Mean
Potency
Racism
Sexism
Trying
Vulnerability
Person
Thing
Another
People Way Trying
Own
Same
State
Controlling
Fears
Legislate
Onto
Projected
Same Thing
Subjugate
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