Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

You have to be completely brave and sincere about what you're doing to just not ever compromise and change it to what you think someone else might want.

I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.

The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I am an honest artist.

Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.