Kathryn Bigelow Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.”

“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.”

“There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.”

“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.”

“I don't know if I thrive in normal life.”

“I like high impact movies.”

“What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.”

“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; film was not.”

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

“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.”