Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.