Catherine Hardwicke Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

• 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 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Thinking, Interesting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Males, Film, More Money

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Dvds, Tools, Looks

  Source: collider.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

• 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.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Fun, Thinking, Murder Mysteries

  Source: collider.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

• 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

• 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

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