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‘A man of miracles’: The Road director John Hillcoat on Cormac McCarthy

Firstly, this is extremely hard for me to write. The loss of such a unique and monumental artistic force is one thing, and the loss of such a special friend is another.

We first connected via a phone call one week out from shooting The Road. Cormac lifted a huge weight from me by simply pointing out that “a book is a book, and a film is a film”, two distinctly different mediums and that I should go make my movie – having not even seen a script. Later when shooting on location he

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