American - Director | November 27, 1952 -
I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.
Kathryn Bigelow
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You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.
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Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
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For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
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I'm interested in social commentary.
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What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.
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I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
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You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.
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I like to be strong.
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I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
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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.
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It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
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