Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow

Am I a ‘woman of action’? I don’t think of myself that way.

Action

Thinking

Way

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

Character

Directors

Simple

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

Capacity

Cinema

Physiological

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

Movie

People

Trying

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

Kind

Purpose

Soldier

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.

Hurt

Opportunity

War

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.

Art

Exercise

New York

I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Directing Movies

Directors

Gender

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

I Can

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.

Character

Heart

Opportunity

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Actors

Animal

Art

Awareness

Believe

Breakdown

Capacity

Ceilings

Censorship

Character

Choices

Cinema

Comedy

Commentary

Dad

Deviate

Differences

Directing Movies

Directors

Dirty

Dna

Dramatic

Dream

Easter

Environment

Exercise

Favors

Film

Filmmaker

Firsts

Form

Fortunate

Found

Gender

Gender Gap

Giving

Glasses

Hands

Has Beens

Heart

Hero

Heroism

Holy Grail

Hurt

I Can

Impact

Important

Important Things

Inspiring

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Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow

Am I a ‘woman of action’? I don’t think of myself that way.

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

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

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

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

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.

I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

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

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.

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