When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. …

- Gavin Hood

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

- Gavin Hood

You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also…

- Gavin Hood

Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you …

- Gavin Hood

I think if you read the story as bad guy turns good guy, then clearly it is a cliché. But my experience, when I spent three years working with young …

- Gavin Hood

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

- Gavin Hood

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it dow…

- Gavin Hood

The question becomes, because we're remotely far away from the territory we're about to bomb, does it make it easier to do it? That it is an importan…

- Gavin Hood

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

- Gavin Hood