Top 55 Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

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.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

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.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

I'm interested in social commentary.

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.