Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

• I’m interested in social commentary.

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• What’s most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That’s the holy grail.

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• War’s dirty little secret is that some men love it.

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• There’s a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he’ll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don’t worry for that character.

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• Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don’t take ‘no’ very well.

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• My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible

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• Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

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• It’s irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don’t.

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• I’m drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I’m drawn to that consistently.

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• You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

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• You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

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• You never think the universe will reward your first choice – it just doesn’t work like that.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• There should be more women directing; I think there’s just not the awareness that it’s really possible.

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• The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

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• 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.

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• Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

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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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