A biography for Catherine Hardwickehasn’t been written yet.
“I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.”
“Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.”
“Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.”
“Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.”
“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.”
“When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.”
“We can learn from everybody.”
“I don't like the sterility of the casting office.”
“Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.”
“I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;' I've been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous.”
“Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.”
“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.”
“Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'”
“People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.”
“There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.”
“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.”
“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.”