I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that. — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
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… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people.… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
“Valerie saw Cesaire's eyes resting upon Suzette's reclining form. Valerie wondered whether he really saw her there anymore. After eighteen years of marriage, Cesaire did not seem to notice her gentleness with her children or her sun-streaked hair in the summer months. Was that what marriage was, an inability to see who the person was, the way that we don't… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share
We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore. — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share
Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
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. — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas. — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person. — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image