Catherine Hardwicke

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something…

— Catherine Hardwicke

“Valerie saw Cesaire's eyes resting upon Suzette's reclining form. Valerie wondered whether he really saw her there anymore. After eighteen years of…

— Catherine Hardwicke

We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too,"…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and…

— Catherine Hardwicke

The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked…

— Catherine Hardwicke

“There must be a God because you are the Devil.”

— Catherine Hardwicke

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

— Catherine Hardwicke

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

— Catherine Hardwicke

I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

— Catherine Hardwicke

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of,…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and…

— Catherine Hardwicke

As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom…

— Catherine Hardwicke

You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that…

— Catherine Hardwicke

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made…

— Catherine Hardwicke

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films,…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168…

— Catherine Hardwicke

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together…

— Catherine Hardwicke

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new -…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of…

— Catherine Hardwicke

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does…

— Catherine Hardwicke