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- Andrew Dominik was born on October 7, 1967 in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a director and writer, known for Chopper (2000), Blonde (2022) and Killing Them Softly (2012).
- Stories about Violent,self-destructive figures
- Biopics about Real-Life figures
- The notion of celebrity, and the constructed self
- Has been friends with Nick Cave since the 80s. They first met when Dominik started dating a woman who had just gotten out of a relationship with Cave. Despite initially feeling threatened by Cave, they would talk on the phone and became lifelong friends and collaborators.
- Directed 2 Oscar nominated performances: Casey Affleck and Ana de Armas.
- Was set to write and direct The Killer Inside Me (2010) with Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron and Drew Barrymore in the lead roles but he chose to shoot The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) instead.
- It was impossible to make a film without a movie star, but it's very difficult to find a part you can cast one in that doesn't seem like miscasting.
- Making movies is hard. If you can avoid working you should do it. Ridley [Scott] can't take more than two weeks between movies or he starts going bananas. I don't understand those guys at all. You have to get up at five o'clock in the morning, it's political, and you feel like you're failing 90 per cent of the time. It's a tough job.
- The first movie I remember seeing is The Wizard of Oz, which had a big impact on me. It's a funny one, because The Wizard of Oz is like an authorless text, because there were four directors that worked on the picture, but it's a really amazing film, even to this day. I've been affected by many films: I think I liked Planet of the Apes movies when I was a kid, and then when I was around 14 I discovered art movies like Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman and 8 ½ and I thought that was all pretty cool, and then I got into Roman Polanski, and then it was Martin Scorsese and David Lynch, and then Terry Malick and-there's just so many of them, so many good movies. It wasn't like I saw 2001 [A Space Odyssey] and thought, "I have to be a filmmaker," or anything like that. It took me six go's at 2001 until I suddenly realized it was a masterpiece-I always thought it was dull-and then I saw a 70mm print of it, and it was the most extraordinary experience.
- [when asked if he would like to make more films] I would be, if I had the money for them. I'd make movie after movie after movie, if I had my way.
- [on why he wishes to direct Blonde (2022)] I think that Blonde will be one of the ten best movies ever made. That's why I want to do it.
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