- David Michôd is known for The King (2019), Animal Kingdom (2010) and The Rover (2014). He is married to Mirrah Foulkes.
- SpouseMirrah Foulkes(? - present)
- Is a member of the BlueTongue Films collective whose members include Joel Edgerton, Nash Edgerton, Spencer Susser, and Kieran Darcy-Smith.
- From 2003-2006, he was the editor of Inside Film magazine.
- 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.
- Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom (2010).
- [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.
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