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" I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Pilot
Anything
Did
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" 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. "
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" I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences. "
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Look
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Peak
" War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. "
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Little
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" I don't know if I thrive in normal life. "
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Life
Know
Thrive
" What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail. "
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Relevant
Opportunity
" I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else. "
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Outside
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" You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh. "
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" Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs. "
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" Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. "
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Painting
Art
Reach
" Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. "
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Civilization
Now
Illusion
" I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently. "
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I Think
Drawn
Find
" Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Heroism
Courage
Film
" 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. "
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Film
Look
World
" You only have so much money to shoot a movie with. "
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You
Money
Movie
" I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there. "
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Filmmaking
You
Me
" Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well. "
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Favor
Only
Well
" My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one. "
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Film
Painting
Movement
" On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Believe
Hand
Hope
" The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Women
Journey
Politics
" It's totally thrilling to direct. "
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Totally
Direct
Thrilling
" Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Jordan
Very
Some
" 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. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Heroism
Moment
History
" The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Purge
Urge
Up
" There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Difference
Mean
Our
" When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience. "
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Involved
Years
King
" I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not. "
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Just
Drawn
Definitely
" 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. "
Kathryn Bigelow
Art
New York
Think
" My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible. "
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Possible
Interest
Way
" I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me. "
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Thrive
Me
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" When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism. "
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Conscience