Kathryn Bigelow
I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.
It's totally thrilling to direct.
I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
I don't know if I thrive in normal life.
I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.Collection: Thinking
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.Collection: Art
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. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.Collection: Thinking
Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.Collection: Movie
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Art
I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.Collection: Thinking
You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.Collection: Thinking
With each project, I'm going for something that makes viewers think, 'Wow, I've never seen a film like this before,' and later think, 'Wow, I've only seen a film like this once before. I saw it in theaters and am watching it now on Netflix or a similar streaming service.'Collection: Thinking
There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.Collection: Animal
War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.Collection: War
I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.Collection: Directors
My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.Collection: Light
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.Collection: Firsts