Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
-
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
-
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
-
I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
-
You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.
-
One should make morals judgements for oneself.
-
I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
-
I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
-
I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.
-
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
-
I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.
-
I don't believe in censorship in any form.
-
I like high impact movies.
-
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
-
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
-
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
-
You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.
-
I like to be strong.
-
My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.
-
Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
-
I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
-
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
-
I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.
-
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
-
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.