| Kathryn Bigelow QUOTES / QUOTATIONS |
Art does imitate life, and the Rodney King beating was a real event. It's a part of all our consciousness, and there's no value in ignoring it.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
As our society progresses and genuine experience becomes a riskier and riskier enterprise, so the desire for it will increase.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
I don't believe in censorship in any form.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
I like high impact movies.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
I respond to movies that get in your face, that have the ability to be provocative or challenge you, that take some risks.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
I wanted to re-evaluate the us vs them paranoia in the hope that we don't repeat mistakes we've made in the past.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
If the film has a seductive nature at all, it's there to draw the viewer in, but I create the visuals in a way that seems absolutely inevitable to me.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
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.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
In 1994, I heard the story of how in 1961, 129 men on board a Russian submarine had faced up to this major nuclear incident.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
In the case of Blue Steel, the gun was a kind of magical component in the turning point of an already unstable person's psyche.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
It was interesting to utilize a strong female character and a male character who has great capacity for vulnerability.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
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.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
One should make morals judgements for oneself.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
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.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
Strange Days is a fictional film, so there was liberty to create a canvas that acknowledges a real flash-point society.
Quotation of 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.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
The technology shown in Strange Days is an extrapolation of feeding that hunger.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
This is my personal opinion, but obviously since we're in America, if you want to own a gun you should be able to own a gun.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
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.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
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.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
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.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
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.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
You shouldn't be able to buy a gun over the counter quickly - it should take two to three months to be certified.
Quotation of Kathryn Bigelow
|
|
|
del.icio.us
Digg it
Simpy