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Quotes on Making "Hugo"
Scorsese on Hugo, the main character: "I identified with the boy" he said of the novel written by Brian Selznick ("The Invention of Hugo Cabret"). "The film also has to do with the development of my youngest daughter’s imagination."
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Actor Ben Kingsley (who plays real-life cinema pioneer Georges Méliès): "When Marty offered me the part, he sent along a DVD boxed set, as only Marty can, of all the surviving Méliès films. And Georges is in all of them — he's the central character. He's the man in the magic bedroom, or the man who goes to the moon. Always, he's expressing a deep joy in what he's doing. When we filmed the scenes of him making those movies, we built that glass studio to scale, and when he's in it, he's the king of his castle. I was deeply happy during those days of filming."
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3D designer Vincent Pace : "In the 3-D world, when you're talking about things like quick pans, moving shots and harsh lighting, the conversation often goes, 'No, you shouldn't do that.' On 'Hugo,' we'd tell the filmmakers, 'Follow the directional path of the story and just do it.' Nine times out of 10, it will work."
Pace on working the film's stereoscopic 3D depth of field to Scorsese's specifications. "Marty might say, 'Reel 2 could use a little more lifting,' Between Marty and his editor Thelma Schoonmaker, you want to go out of the room and kill yourself. They see everything! And that's a great thing."
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Ben Kingsley: "The 3-D camera is like an X-ray camera. It will see the thought before it rises on our face. It will see the gesture before your hand makes it. It anticipates everything. So it forced upon us a wonderful economy of voice, gesture and action. You daren't "act." The 3-D camera says, I want spontaneity, that's all I want. It's very challenging. But at the same time, when you feel you've hit it, it's exhilarating." (from interview with the LA Times.)
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Ben Kingsley on working with director Scorsese: "He's a very compassionate man [and that is expressed] in his choice of material. From my perspective, all his major works deal with male vulnerability. "Raging Bull," "Casino," "The Departed," "Shutter Island" and this film — it's all an examination of the various facets of masculinity and its corresponding vulnerability."
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Scorsese on how daughter Francesca has inspired his filmmaking: “She’s in school and kids keep asking about the films I’ve made, so my wife said, ‘Make a film that your kid can see for once!’ The biggest, most important thing I did for my daughter — according to her — was acting in Shark Tale. I milked that for a few years. When that ran out, it was time for Hugo.”
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