Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Catherine Hardwicke
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 21
Architect
Film Director
Film Producer
Production Designer
Screenwriter
Cameron
Texas
Helen Catherine Hardwicke
Things
Director
Think
Directors
Thinking
Students
Commentaries
Like
Hear
Commentary
Interesting
Figured
Often
Technical
Film
Filmmaker
Really
Student

More quotes by Catherine Hardwicke

Image
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.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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
Image
Of course, the male-directed films make more money.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day, because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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
Image
Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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
Image
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.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.
Catherine Hardwicke
Image
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.
Catherine Hardwicke