Catherine Hardwicke Quotes
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.
When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.
I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.
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.
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.
I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.
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.
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.
I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.
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.
When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.
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.
I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
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.
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.
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.
As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.
