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
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
deal seriously
Things like this, we take seriously and we deal with.
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I've often made the comment that I don't know why everybody goes in it, because it's just an endurance test and the fun goes out of it. It's a long spiel, and I think people have changed. Years ago it was a drinking spiel, and it's not a drinking spiel anymore.
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You can't have these sort of prices without a substantial effect on demand.
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They're playing with fire and it looks like they're going to get their fingers burned.
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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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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.
love trained
I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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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.
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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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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.
team kids two
There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
thinking important
You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.