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Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

I hope I haven’t grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don’t want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I’m holding on to that.

– Catherine Hardwicke

You’re fearless when you’re a kid.

– Catherine Hardwicke

We can learn from everybody.

– Catherine Hardwicke

There’s so many versions of ‘Red Riding Hood.’ It goes back 700 years.

– Catherine Hardwicke

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

– Catherine Hardwicke

Obviously, ‘Twilight’ had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn’t make the movie. Fox wouldn’t make it. Nobody wanted to do it.

– Catherine Hardwicke

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

– Catherine Hardwicke

I don’t like the sterility of the casting office.

– Catherine Hardwicke

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don’t matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we’re bombarded nonstop.

– Catherine Hardwicke

I’m immature.

– Catherine Hardwicke

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it’s really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

– Catherine Hardwicke

As a director, you’ve got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

– Catherine Hardwicke

I still like the idea of having an intimate experience with a movie, but I love watching stuff on my iPad. It’s close, and I feel like I’m a part of it, so maybe that makes more sense in some cases.

– Catherine Hardwicke

The script for ‘Thirteen’ is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

– Catherine Hardwicke

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

– Catherine Hardwicke

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

– Catherine Hardwicke

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

– Catherine Hardwicke

Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you’re not in Baby Gap, you’re not cool. That’s how everybody’s grown up, so they don’t even know it could be another way.

– Catherine Hardwicke

You don’t pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you’re asked to pay the same price for ‘Avatar’ as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.

– Catherine Hardwicke

When I talk to film students, I always say, ‘Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,’ because that’s such a great learning tool.

– Catherine Hardwicke

You don’t watch ‘A Beautiful Mind’ and say, ‘This is how every mathematician is.’

– Catherine Hardwicke

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

– Catherine Hardwicke

You have a big success, and it’s still not easy to make a movie.

– Catherine Hardwicke

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I’ve heard at junior high schools I’ve visited, I’d be scared and humiliated.

– Catherine Hardwicke

There are some moments where you’re so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you’re like, ‘Whatever. Bite me.’ I think all directors feel that way sometimes.

– Catherine Hardwicke

I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after ‘Twilight,’ and the magic just didn’t hit.

– Catherine Hardwicke

I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.

– Catherine Hardwicke

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can’t.

– Catherine Hardwicke

Being in construction my whole life – I was trained as an architect – I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don’t want to be shown up by a woman.

– Catherine Hardwicke

How do you fight when you’re trying to pull somebody’s arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

– Catherine Hardwicke

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