102 Quotes by Catherine Hardwicke

Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

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.

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

That gets you access to double to pool of actors, funding, musicians, whatever you need,

I've had meetings where there were literally, like, 12 angry men in a room and me. And even when everyone shot me down, I somehow dug in one more time.

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.

I had always liked, well, who didn't love Lestat and fall in love with 'Interview with the Vampire,' and 'Nosferatu,' and Coppola's 'Dracula' with the awesome costumes? So I loved all that.