102 Quotes by Catherine Hardwicke

I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.

Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.