Catherine Hardwicke (Helen Catherine Hardwicke) Quotes
Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik came on the show, and we got really close. Because of that, I'm not so quick to judge other women, and now I have all these amazing new girlfriends.
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I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
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I'd love to do a drama.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.
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Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
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Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.
