Catherine Hardwicke (Helen Catherine Hardwicke) Quotes
I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
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I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
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Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.
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When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?
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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
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I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.
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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.
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I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.
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I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.
