88 Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

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.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.

Art does imitate life, and the Rodney King beating was a real event. It's a part of all our consciousness, and there's no value in ignoring it.

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

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