Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

There must be a God because you are the Devil.

As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.

We can learn from everybody.

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

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.

After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

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

I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

There's so many versions of 'Red Riding Hood.' It goes back 700 years.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.

So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'

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.

You're fearless when you're a kid.

You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'

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.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

I don't like the sterility of the casting office.

You have a big success, and it's still not easy to make a movie.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

Stephenie Meyer said she's ready to move on from 'Twilight,' but you never know.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

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.

What does 'dating' mean? I don't know. I couldn't say.

I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

People are nervous about their kids, and they're worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they're living in.

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

Sheep are just psychotic.

Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'

I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.