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
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
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
[on Flash Gordon (1980)] The only improvised $27-million movie ever made.
[on Flash Gordon (1980)] The only improvised $27-million movie ever made.
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
I don't really have anything "to say", I'd just like to eke out the comic side of the human predicam Show more
I don't really have anything "to say", I'd just like to eke out the comic side of the human predicament. Hide
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.
Mike Hodges's FILMOGRAPHY
as Director (4)
as Creator (2)
