Quotes from Catherine Hardwicke

After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.

People are nervous about their kids, and they're worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they're living in.

When I talk to film students, I always say, 'Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,' because that's such a great learning tool.

So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.

I still like the idea of having an intimate experience with a movie, but I love watching stuff on my iPad. It's close, and I feel like I'm a part of it, so maybe that makes more sense in some cases.

I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

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

I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of course, they did.

For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.

I've had meetings where there were literally, like, 12 angry men in a room and me. And even when everyone shot me down, I somehow dug in one more time.

Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

Stephenie Meyer said she's ready to move on from 'Twilight,' but you never know.

I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.

When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.

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.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

There must be a God because you are the Devil.

Valerie saw Cesaire's eyes resting upon Suzette's reclining form. Valerie wondered whether he really saw her there anymore. After eighteen years of marriage, Cesaire did not seem to notice her gentleness with her children or her sun-streaked hair in the summer months. Was that what marriage was, an inability to see who the person was, the way that we don't know ourselves because we stand too close?