Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

Kathryn Bigelow

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• Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • You
  • Speed

• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• There is no sin except stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity
  • Except

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • World
  • School
  • Day

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Action

• If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Star

• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Good
  • Flame
  • Committee

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Country
  • Drink

• I like to have sleepovers.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Like

• I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Pressure
  • Grateful

• I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Business
  • Myself
  • Three

• I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Morning

• Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Trust

• Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.

  

  Jai Courtney
  • Time
  • American
  • Couple

• I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.

  

  Deborah Tannen

• I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow