Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
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So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.
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I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.
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You give me the feeling that the universeWas made by something more than humanFor something less than human.But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.
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My life may not be something specialBut it's never been lived before.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.
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We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.
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I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.
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The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
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I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
