Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Change, Movies, Women, Gender)
"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Film, First)
"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Hope)
"When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Action, Conscience, Film, Realism)
"One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: War, Film, World)
"Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Courage, Film, Force, Heroism)
"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."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Civilization, Country, Illusion, Now, Order, Right, Tension)
"You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Work, Choice, First, Reward, Universe, Will)
"I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Want)
"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Violence)
"Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Character)
"I don't believe in censorship in any form."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Censorship)
"There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Women, Awareness)
"I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Love)
"I like high impact movies."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Movies)
"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Art, People, Film, Numbers, Painting)
"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."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Experience, Years)
"One should make morals judgements for oneself."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Morals)
"The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process."
- Kathryn Bigelow
"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."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: History, Accident, Heroism)
"Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm."
- Kathryn Bigelow