Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
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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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Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.
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I do have to say I have been very fortunate.
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War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.
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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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With each project, I'm going for something that makes viewers think, 'Wow, I've never seen a film like this before,' and later think, 'Wow, I've only seen a film like this once before. I saw it in theaters and am watching it now on Netflix or a similar streaming service.'
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I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.
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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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War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.
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I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off "The Hurt Locker" (2008) and I'm thinking of the war and I think it's a deplorable situation. It's a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about.
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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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I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
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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. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.
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I'm interested in social commentary.
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I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.
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I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
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I don't know if I thrive in normal life.
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Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
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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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Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.
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I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
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There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.
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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.
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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
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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.
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I don't believe in censorship in any form.
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I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
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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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I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.
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Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
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