American - Director | October 21, 1955 -
Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.
Catherine Hardwicke
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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.
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Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.
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I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.
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I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.
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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.
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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.
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I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.
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For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.
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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.
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We can learn from everybody.
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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.
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