Top 84 Bigelow's Quotes
#1. The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
Lynda Obst
#2. In New York the Seligmans were major backers of the immensely profitable Pioneer Cattle Company, and Poultney Bigelow's father, the diplomat John Bigelow, was another of those tied into Teschemacher & DeBillier.
David McCullough
#4. Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
Kathryn Bigelow
#5. There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.
Kathryn Bigelow
#6. I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
Kathryn Bigelow
#8. The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Kathryn Bigelow
#10. There were lines people drew in their lives, and subsequently, they thought of everything else as having happened "before" and "after" those points.
Susan Jane Bigelow
#11. For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
Kathryn Bigelow
#15. I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
Kathryn Bigelow
#16. Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
Kathryn Bigelow
#18. I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
Patricia Riggen
#19. When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
Kathryn Bigelow
#22. My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.
Kathryn Bigelow
#24. You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.
Kathryn Bigelow
#25. Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.
Maurice Bigelow
#26. Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
Kathryn Bigelow
#27. I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
Kathryn Bigelow
#28. ...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.
Bill Bigelow
#29. My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.
Kathryn Bigelow
#31. Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
Kathryn Bigelow
#32. I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.
Rob Schneider
#33. It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
Jacob Bigelow
#34. On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
Kathryn Bigelow
#35. I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
Kathryn Bigelow
#36. The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
John Bigelow
#37. For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.
Diablo Cody
#38. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
Kathryn Bigelow
#39. The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
Kathryn Bigelow
#40. There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.
Kathryn Bigelow
#41. First there was Genesis I, then Genesis II, and, if all goes well, there will be a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) attached to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2015.
Erik Seedhouse
#43. Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.
Kathryn Bigelow
#44. If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Kathryn Bigelow
#45. There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.
Kathryn Bigelow
#46. I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
Kathryn Bigelow
#47. When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
Kathryn Bigelow
#48. One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.
Kathryn Bigelow
#49. My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.
Kathryn Bigelow
#50. In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film.
Alex Gibney
#52. Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.
Kathryn Bigelow
#53. When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
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#54. I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
Kathryn Bigelow
#55. Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.
Kathryn Bigelow
#56. And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
John Bigelow
#58. I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.
Lena Headey
#59. Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
John Bigelow
#61. I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.
Kathryn Bigelow
#62. This year I, Molly Bigelow, resolve to stay alive.
That's it.
James Ponti
#63. I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
Kathryn Bigelow
#64. I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.
Kathryn Bigelow
#65. Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
Julia Stiles
#66. I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.
Kathryn Bigelow
#67. I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.
Kathryn Bigelow
#68. I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Kathryn Bigelow
#69. I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.
Stephen Lang
#70. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
Kathryn Bigelow
#71. Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.
Kathryn Bigelow
#73. The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Kathryn Bigelow
#74. It was my pork chop. But that's ok. I ate his dog food.
Bam Bam Bigelow
#75. With each project, I'm going for something that makes viewers think, 'Wow, I've never seen a film like this before,' and later think, 'Wow, I've only seen a film like this once before. I saw it in theaters and am watching it now on Netflix or a similar streaming service.'
Kathryn Bigelow
#76. Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Kathryn Bigelow
#77. You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.
Kathryn Bigelow
#78. My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Kathryn Bigelow
#79. It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.
Sarah Gavron
#80. I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
Kathryn Bigelow
#81. Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Kathryn Bigelow
#82. Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.
Albert Bigelow Paine
#83. What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.
Kathryn Bigelow
#84. I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
Kathryn Bigelow
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