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• I’m definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I’m just not.

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• I can’t stand outside myself and be anybody else.

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• I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

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• I’m drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

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• I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

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• Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

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• I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

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• I don’t know if I thrive in normal life.

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• I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

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

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• I realised that there’s a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

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• I don’t do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

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• I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

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• I choose material instinctually – at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

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• I can’t stand outside myself and be anybody else.

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• For some individuals – some soldiers, some contractors – combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
  

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• There’s really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

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• My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

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• It’s totally thrilling to direct.

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• I’ve always developed all my own pieces, and they’re time-consumers.

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Kathryn Bigelow (53)

Birth:	27th November, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, the only child of Gertrude Kathryn, a librarian, and Ronald Elliot Bigelow, a paint factory manager. Her mother was of Norwegian descent. Bigelow's early creative endeavors were as a student of painting. She enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute in the fall of 1970 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in December 1972.

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