Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

• My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
• 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.
• When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
• On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
• When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
• 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.
• Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
• 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.
• You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.
• I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
• I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
• Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
• I don't believe in censorship in any form.
• There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
• I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
• I like high impact movies.
• Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
• 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.
• One should make morals judgements for oneself.
• The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
• 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.
• Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.