Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

I am trying to make the kind of film that I would be happy to see.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I always try to write the best I can.

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is it important enough? Is it serious enough?' It's either alive or it's not for me. If it's alive, I want to do it.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Making movies is all about instinct.

Film has always been where my heart is.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.