Words matter. These are the best Kathryn Bigelow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I like high impact movies.
I’m interested in social commentary.
Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.
There should be more women directing; I think there’s just not the awareness that it’s really possible.
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.
My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.
I’m drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
I’m drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I’m drawn to that consistently.
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.
On the other hand, I believe there’s hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is – politics, business, film – it’s, it’s a long journey.
I realised that there’s a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
It’s irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don’t.
Am I a ‘woman of action’? I don’t think of myself that way.
You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.
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.
I don’t want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
I’m definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I’m just not.
I can’t stand outside myself and be anybody else.
I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.
One should make morals judgements for oneself.
You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.
I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
