Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

About Kathryn Bigelow:

Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American director, producer and writer. Her films include the vampire Western horror film Near Dark (1987), the action crime film Point Break (1991), the controversial science fiction action thriller Strange Days (1995), the mystery thriller The Weight of Water (2000), the submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), the war film The Hurt Locker (2009), the action thriller war film Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and the short film Last Days of Ivory (2014). The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama.
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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.

Kathryn Bigelow

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

Kathryn Bigelow

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

Kathryn Bigelow

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

Kathryn Bigelow

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

Kathryn Bigelow

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

Kathryn Bigelow

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

Kathryn Bigelow

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

Kathryn Bigelow

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

Kathryn Bigelow

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

Kathryn Bigelow

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

Kathryn Bigelow

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Kathryn Bigelow

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Kathryn Bigelow

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.

Kathryn Bigelow

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

Kathryn Bigelow

I'm interested in social commentary.

Kathryn Bigelow

I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.

Kathryn Bigelow

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

Kathryn Bigelow

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Kathryn Bigelow

It's totally thrilling to direct.

Kathryn Bigelow

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.

Kathryn Bigelow

Author Bio

  • NameKathryn Bigelow
  • DescriptionAmerican film director and producer
  • BornNovember 27, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Director; Film Producer; Writer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Director; Directors Guild Of America Award