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" I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me. "
Kathryn Bigelow
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" I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have. "
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" War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. "
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" There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. "
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" 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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" Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. "
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" When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director. "
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" You only have so much money to shoot a movie with. "
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" 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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" If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. "
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" I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there. "
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" 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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" On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously. "
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" My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible. "
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" 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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" 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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" The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. "
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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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