Top 30 Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Catherine Hardwicke Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrage

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I’ve heard at junior high schools I’ve visited, I’d be scared and humiliated.
Catherine Hardwicke
Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn’t come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they’re totally cutting loose.
Catherine Hardwicke
I don’t like to watch a movie where it’s just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.
Catherine Hardwicke
As a filmmaker and film student, I think it’s really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.
Catherine Hardwicke
Obviously, ‘Twilight’ had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn’t make the movie. Fox wouldn’t make it. Nobody wanted to do it.
Catherine Hardwicke
You have a big success, and it’s still not easy to make a movie.
Catherine Hardwicke
Sometimes, you don’t realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.
Catherine Hardwicke
I could go my whole life and say, ‘I’m not going to do anything with a love triangle,’ but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.
Catherine Hardwicke
I hope I haven’t grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don’t want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I’m holding on to that.
Catherine Hardwicke
I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it’s not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn’t in that medium.
Catherine Hardwicke
The script for ‘Thirteen’ is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.
Catherine Hardwicke
There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.
Catherine Hardwicke
I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after ‘Twilight,’ and the magic just didn’t hit.
Catherine Hardwicke
People are nervous about their kids, and they’re worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they’re living in.
Catherine Hardwicke
I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they’ve maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.
Catherine Hardwicke
You’re fearless when you’re a kid.
Catherine Hardwicke
My first movie, ‘Thirteen,’ and it was very real – almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I’d love to do something like that again.
Catherine Hardwicke
You don’t watch ‘A Beautiful Mind’ and say, ‘This is how every mathematician is.’
Catherine Hardwicke
As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.
Catherine Hardwicke
Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?
Catherine Hardwicke
I’ve had meetings where there were literally, like, 12 angry men in a room and me. And even when everyone shot me down, I somehow dug in one more time.
Catherine Hardwicke
Starting with ‘Thirteen,’ my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.
Catherine Hardwicke
There’s so many versions of ‘Red Riding Hood.’ It goes back 700 years.
Catherine Hardwicke
As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can’t.
Catherine Hardwicke
When you’re in a creative flow with somebody – and I had this back in architecture school – you’re just so passionate about what you’re doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you’ll be madly in love with them. It’s just that thrill of creating.
Catherine Hardwicke
Of course I went and got ‘Breaking Dawn’ at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, ‘Yes!’
Catherine Hardwicke
When I talk to film students, I always say, ‘Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,’ because that’s such a great learning tool.
Catherine Hardwicke
You don’t pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you’re asked to pay the same price for ‘Avatar’ as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.
Catherine Hardwicke
After ‘Inconvenient Truth,’ we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.
Catherine Hardwicke
Stephenie Meyer said she’s ready to move on from ‘Twilight,’ but you never know.
Catherine Hardwicke