David Michôd

Short Biography

David Michôd is a writer and director, known for The Rover (2014), Animal Kingdom (2010) and War Machine (2017).Trivia (4)Is a member of the BlueTongue Films collective whose members include Joel Edgerton, Nash Edgerton, Spencer Susser, and Kieran Darcy-Smith.Educated at Sydney Grammar School, then studied arts at the University of Melbourne. After working at the Victorian Department of Education, in his mid-20s, decided to attend film school.From 2003-2006, he was the editor of Inside Film magazine.Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom (2010).Personal Quotes (4)[on 'The Rover'] In some ways it is an angry movie. But at the same time I feel like 'Animal Kingdom' is angrier than this one. That weird tableau of characters you're left with at the end of 'Animal Kingdom' is a pretty kind of loveless tableau. Where as here, where this movie ends - for all its brutality - is an almost sentimental place of human conception.'Animal Kingdom' changed my life. It meant for me that I didn't have to work out what movie I was going to make next. I had to work out how to work. I went from having no options to a thousand.[on filmmaking] By the time I've finished making [a movie] I feel like I've lost perspective. This is the part of the process where I get a sense of how it sits in the world. How it's being read, and really terrifyingly, what it might mean for me and the trajectory of my career.[on the Cannes Film Festival] It is as I had always imagined it. The madness of it. That strange mix of money and gross-ass luxury with a true and sincere reverence for cinema. I haven't experienced it anywhere else.