Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
Quotes to Explore
-
Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
-
Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
-
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
-
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
-
I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
-
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
-
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
-
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
-
Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
-
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
-
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
-
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
-
Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
-
I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
-
I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
-
If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
-
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
-
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
-
I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.
-
I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
-
I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
-
It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.
-
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
-
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
