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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Crazy, Twilight, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Book, Twilight, Gone

  Source: blogs.indiewire.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Men, Play, Support

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

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  Males, Film, More Money

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

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  Stripes, Males, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

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  Twilight, Games, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.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 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.

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  Successful, Track, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

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  Stuff, Has Beens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Thinking, Persons, Relate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• 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.

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  Writing, Usa, Architect

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

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  Men, Female, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

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  Cancer, Population, Percent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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