Catherine Hardwicke

“I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.”

“You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'”

“Stephenie Meyer said she's ready to move on from 'Twilight,' but you never know.”

“My first movie, 'Thirteen,' and it was very real - almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again.”

“You have a big success, and it's still not easy to make a movie.”

“I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.”

“Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.”

“What does 'dating' mean? I don't know. I couldn't say.”

“I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.”

“There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.”

“There's so many versions of 'Red Riding Hood.' It goes back 700 years.”

“I'm immature.”

“I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.”

“If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.”

“I still like the idea of having an intimate experience with a movie, but I love watching stuff on my iPad. It's close, and I feel like I'm a part of it, so maybe that makes more sense in some cases.”

“You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you're asked to pay the same price for 'Avatar' as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.”

“You're fearless when you're a kid.”

“As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.”

“When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.”

“After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.”