A biography for Catherine Hardwickehasn’t been written yet.
“I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.”
“Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.”
“So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'”
“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.”
“I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.”
“I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.”
“I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.”
“Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.”
“For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.”
“Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?”
“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.”
“People are nervous about their kids, and they're worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they're living in.”
“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.”
“A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.”
“Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.”
“Sheep are just psychotic.”
“As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.”