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Catherine Hardwicke

Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21, 1955) is an American film director, production designer, and screenwriter. Her directorial work includes Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, Lords of Dogtown (2005), The Nativity Story (2006), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011) and Plush (2013).

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When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

Five, Halloween, Make, Mom, Years

You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

Come, Dark, Feelings, Happily, Sibling

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

Challenge, Challenges, Done, Like, Mystery, Would Be

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world. " You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

Heart, Person, Single, Thinking, Trying

Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

Big, Film, Kind, Spielberg, Want

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

Person, Persons, Relate, Sanitized, Think, Thinking

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

Course, Film, Make, Males, Money, More Money

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does dating mean? I don't know. I couldn't say. People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

Dating, Fun, Know, Mean, Thinking

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

Fun, Let, People, Talk, Talking

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

Cancer, Percent, Population, Told

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money. " It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

Cost, Dollars, Financing, Love Is, Thinking, Twilight

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 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.

Contenders, Contending, Female, Men, Stories, Woman

Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.

Film, Men, Play, Support

As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

Cutting, Ideas, Moving, Progress, Realize, Scene

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

Creative, Different, Editing, Ideas

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 scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.

Fun, Love, Murder Mysteries, Mystery, Scene, Thinking

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.

Come, Directors, Financing, Light, Together

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

Bar, Golf, Helping Others, Like, Likely, People

Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.

Dollars, Games, People, Spun, Twilight

I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

Director, Directors, Interesting, Think, Thinking

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