Gavin O'Connor
Gavin O'Connor
Screenwriter and director, best known for his work on the 2004 sports drama Miracle, which was about the US Hockey team's victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth30 October 1964
CountryUnited States of America
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
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I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.