Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

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• I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Fighting, Men, Yelling

  "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.

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• People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does dating mean? I don't know. I couldn't say. People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

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  Fun, Mean, Thinking

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• People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

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  Fun, Talking, People

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• As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.

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  Mean, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

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  Heart, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

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  Character, Three, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

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  Light, Together, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make it and they didn't think it would make any money, but I read the book and I thought, "Wow, I want to capture that feeling of just being crazy in love. I wonder if I can do that in a film." That was my challenge.

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  Crazy, Twilight, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of course, they did.

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  People, Passionate, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

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  Mom, Kids, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

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  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

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  Challenges, Would Be, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore.

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  Brother, Dad, Children

  Source: collider.com

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• Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

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  Twilight, Thinking, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

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  Mom, Halloween, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

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  Editing, Ideas, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• I like doing commentary. 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. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Dvds, Tools, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that you see it from your perspective, your issues and what you were trying to do, and then it's really very fun to hear their perspective on how it was to do a particular scene or how they felt, and sometimes, I didn't even know that, at the time.

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  Fun, Issues, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

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  Believe, Moments, Nostalgic

  Source: collider.com

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• As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

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  Moving, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.

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  Fun, Thinking, Murder Mysteries

  Source: collider.com

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• I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."

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  Thinking, Good Movie, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

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  Golf, Helping Others, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

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  Character, Careers, Stronger

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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