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"I've never learned more about a film, and my deficiancies, than this film," director Scott Cooper said of 'Hostiles'

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00:00Hi, this is Mariah Gullow from The Hollywood Reporter, and I'm in studio to talk about

00:07Hostiles today.

00:08Hi, welcome.

00:09How are you?

00:11Can you each start by telling me something you learned while making this film that you

00:14brought into your present day life?

00:17To be more compassionate, to be less, well, to be more selfless, I think, and to be a

00:27better listener, perhaps try to better understand the lives of others, because I think that's

00:36what we need in America today.

00:37We're living in very dark and polarizing times, and I think, if anything, this film offers

00:42that kind of message about healing and reconciliation and forgiveness and enlightenment, and I've

00:49never been more moved by the actual production of the film, and then as I'm editing the film

00:55and then I think any time as a film director you make a film, you learn a little bit more

01:02about yourself.

01:03And I've never learned more about myself and my deficiencies than this film.

01:07Which deficiencies?

01:08Oh, just being, living in a world in which you tend to be less self-reflective and more open

01:23to all of this kind of negative stimuli that tends to surround us every day, because even

01:28as we perhaps, if you read enough, even as we're doing this press junket, it feels like

01:35the world is kind of slowly crumbling around you, right?

01:38But the truth is, there's so many people that offer so much humanity, and there's so many

01:42people also who are suffering.

01:44And when you live in Los Angeles and you're only making films, sometimes you're so self-centered,

01:49and you're living in this kind of bubble, this vacuum, as you're trying to make a film and

01:54produce a film and edit a film, that you sometimes forget about the world at large, and that so

01:59many people around the world, and certainly here in America, are suffering.

02:03And I think when you make a film like this, it makes you much more open to those around

02:09you that are very different.

02:10And I think that's the key, is better understanding people with differences in the world.

02:14It's certainly differences than you, because we're living in such polarizing times.

02:19And I wish that I could do that on every film.

02:22Koryanka, what did you learn?

02:28To be more compassionate and open, and not so judgmental to the thing of judging a book

02:39by it's covered by the differences, but rather finding the things that are similar, that I

02:48do have in common with people.

02:51And I think it's an important lesson for us in moving forward to really take the time to

03:00take a step back and look at our history and where we're coming from in order to have a clear

03:05understanding of the path of our future, and where we want to head, and how we conduct

03:11ourselves as human beings, realizing that we all have the power of a grain of sand in

03:19a tipping scale sometimes, and sometimes all it takes is one little grain of sand to tip

03:23the scale in a different direction when it comes to change.

03:27And, you know, just this film in itself, taking that step forward on a very long path that

03:35we have ahead of us, but also of, you know, telling the story and depicting Native Americans

03:43in a more honorable, truthful way than has been in the past.

03:49So...

03:50Wes?

03:51To take the time to actually put myself in another situation or in another man's shoes,

04:00if you will.

04:01Wonderful.

04:02Thank you so much.

Scott Cooper, Wes Studi and G'orianka Kilcher on 'Hostiles' | In Studio

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