Latest Catherine Hardwicke Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Character, Three, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Thinking, Persons, Relate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Stuff, Has Beens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Writing, Usa, Architect

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Successful, Track, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Golf, Helping Others, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Character, Careers, Stronger

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Book, Twilight, Gone

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Twilight, Games, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Males, Film, More Money

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Stripes, Males, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Men, Play, Support

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Cancer, Population, Percent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Men, Female, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• We love those beautiful, Latin American stories where there is an element that's more mysterious and wonderful. I think as a child a lot of us love the idea of the star and more of the supernatural elements.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Beautiful, Stars, Children

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Sibling, Dark, Feelings

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

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Challenges, Would Be, Done

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Brother, Dad, Children

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Mom, Kids, Littles

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Twilight, Thinking, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Crazy, Twilight, Book

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  People, Passionate, Might

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Mean, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Heart, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com