Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

I'm looking forward to working with some of the best cast and crew there are.

I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

I like to work with people who want to make films because they are passionate about films and not because they want to sell films and make money. I am not for people who get the most saleable actor and then the most saleable director and sell the film.

As filmmakers and as actors, you have to find truth.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.

He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.