Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Journey, Long, Matter

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• I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Actors, Film

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• Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Art, Writing, Practice

  "Kathryn Bigelow addresses 'Zero Dark Thirty' torture criticism". articles.latimes.com. January 15, 2013|.

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• I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Gender Gap, People

  "Kathryn Bigelow: We Must End Gender Discrimination in Hollywood". time.com. May 12, 2015.

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Two, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Norm, Deviate

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• 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.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Art, Numbers, People

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• Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Favors, Wells, Tenacious

  "Q&A: Filming a War of Bombs in The Hurt Locker". Interview with Julian Sancton, www.vanityfair.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, People, Trying

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• 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

  Important, Important Things, Irrelevant

  "Kathryn Bigelow discusses role of "seductive violence" in her films". Interview with Michelle P. Perry, tech.mit.edu. March 16, 1990.

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• I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off "The Hurt Locker" (2008) and I'm thinking of the war and I think it's a deplorable situation. It's a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Hurt, War, Opportunity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Awareness, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Heart, Character, Opportunity

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• My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Dream, Art, Dad

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

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Dna, Hands, Needs

  “Action Heroine” by Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. June 10, 2009.

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• Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Cinema, Capacity, Physiological

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• War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  War, Dirty, Men

  "Kathryn Bigelow Talks About 'The Hurt Locker'" by Jennie Yabroff, www.newsweek.com. June 18, 2009.

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• I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Want, Stuff, Made

  "Kathryn Bigelow: 'Zero Dark Thirty' has no agenda". Interview with Rohit Vats, www.news18.com. January 17, 2013.

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• I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Art, New York, Exercise

  "'I like to be strong'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2002.

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

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movement, Painting, Film

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• I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

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  Character, Thinking, Provocative

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• I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Waiting, Filmmaker

  "Bigelow Backstage: ‘Don’t Give Up’" by Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. March 7, 2010.

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• You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.

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  Thinking, Choices, Rewards

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• There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

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  Mean, Differences, Giving

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