Quotes By 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.

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

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

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

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

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

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

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.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

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

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

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

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

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; film was not.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

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

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

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.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

It's totally thrilling to direct.

I like to be strong.