Gary Ross

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1. 1956 age 0

   Born

2. 1988 age 32

   CreditBigproducer

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3. 1993 age 37

   CreditDave

   CreditDavescreenwriter

4. 1998 age 42

   CreditPleasantvilledirector

   CreditPleasantvilleproducer

   CreditPleasantvillescreenwriter

5. 2003 age 47

   CreditSeabiscuit

   CreditSeabiscuitdirector

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6. 2008 age 52

   CreditThe Tale of Despereauxproducer

   CreditThe Tale of Despereauxscreenwriter

7. 2012 age 56

   CreditThe Hunger Gamesdirector

   CreditThe Hunger Gamesscreenwriter

8. 2018 age 62

   CreditOcean's 8director

   CreditOcean's 8screenwriter

• RNRandy Newman2 titles
• JHJames Newton Howard2 titles
• JMJudianna Makovsky2 titles
• DSDanny Strong2 titles
• JKJames Keane2 titles
• TMTobey Maguire2 titles
• EBElizabeth Banks2 titles
• JWJuliette Welfling2 titles
• WGWilliam Goldenberg2 titles
• WMWilliam H. Macy2 titles

• Parents

  • ARArthur A. Ross

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• I wish I were big.

  Gary Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There are certain things you should expect from a President. I ought to care more about you than I do about me... I ought to care more about what's right than I do about what's popular. I ought to be willing to give this whole thing up for something I believe in.

  Gary Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.

  Gary Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Writing is all about the preservation of your own voice. So if you give that voice away by guessing what you think and you think and you think as you go, you’ll have less to say and then it’ll go away completely!

  Gary Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I love almost all of Stanley Kubrick, there’s almost no Stanley Kubrick I don’t love. I love Lolita, I love Dr. Strangelove. I love A Clockwork Orange, obviously. I even like a lot of Barry Lyndon (laughs). And early stuff, like The Killing and Paths of Glory. … It’s ridiculous. Look, he made the best comedy ever, he may have made one of the best science fiction movies ever, he made the best horror movie ever. I couldn’t watch the end of The Shining. I went through half The Shining for years before I could finish, because I’m a writer and as soon as he starts writing “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” I had to turn it off. It’s almost like Picasso in that he mastered so many different genres. … he took his time and patience and he had a crew of like 18 people. They were very handmade movies these were not large behemoths that he did; they were very thoughtful and his editing process was long. He’s kind of without peer really. If I was gonna settle on a director, probably Kub

  Gary Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I’m trying to capture what was visceral in the books, which is your first-person present tense narrative, and that’s gonna require a certain amount of subjectivity. In order to be in Katniss’ point of view and in her shoes — what being in a character’s point of view is, is restricting the information that the audience has to what that character has, and not being writer omniscient. I’m not cutting from place-to-place, I’m moving in this serpentine, destabilized path as Katniss wanders through this world. That’s not only true in the shooting style, it’s also true in the editing style. … This was a very conscious decision to create a very subjective style because the books are so subjective, they’re first-person and they’re urgent and you see the world as she sees the world, so that was the reason for it.

  Gary Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0