Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Done
  • Man

• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

  J Allard
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Me
  • Never
  • Producer

• I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Always

• The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Discipline
  • Philosophy

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Opinion
  • Bible
  • Journalism

• 'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Job

• As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Beauty
  • Kid
  • Legends

• Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Friends
  • True
  • Friend

• A man of truth must also be a man of care.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth

• I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • People
  • Hope
  • Integrity

• Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time
  • May
  • War

• 'What is the work of a Master?' said a solemn-faced visitor. 'To teach people to laugh,' said the Master gravely.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Work

• You should never doubt yourself because you never, ever know what's around the corner.

  

  Kellie Pickler
  • Doubt

• I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Tomorrow

• I know beating a woman isn't like winning seven gold medals. But how many old guys are there in the world? You think they can relate to Mark Spitz? They relate to me, Bobby Riggs.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • World
  • Winning
  • Gold

• From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • First
  • Wanted
  • Just

• I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow