Mike Hodges
Birthday: 29 July 1932, Bristol, England, UK
Birth Name: Michael Tommy Hodges
Mike Hodges was born on July 29, 1932 in Bristol, England as Michael Tommy Hodges. He is a director and producer, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Get Carter (1971) and Croupier (1998). He was previousl ...Show More
I really want to take the audience by the hand and take them somewhere they haven't been before.
I really want to take the audience by the hand and take them somewhere they haven't been before.
America puzzled me from the moment I went there in the mid-1960s. Its motivation was totally differe Show more
America puzzled me from the moment I went there in the mid-1960s. Its motivation was totally different from that in the UK of those days (but sadly no longer). But what was it? I began to realize it was a culture based heavily on addiction. The object of every manufacturer was to make people become addicted to something, anything. Hide
A film is alive. You shouldn't stifle it. You should never over art-direct, over conceive, over rese Show more
A film is alive. You shouldn't stifle it. You should never over art-direct, over conceive, over research, or walk in with an exact idea of how things should be done. Hide
We don't seem to realize that our lives are already gripped in the steely, dehumanizing equivalent o Show more
We don't seem to realize that our lives are already gripped in the steely, dehumanizing equivalent of a totalitarian state. At the moment, we see it as benign, but it won't always be like that. Hide
[on Flash Gordon (1980)] The only improvised $27-million movie ever made.
[on Flash Gordon (1980)] The only improvised $27-million movie ever made.
