Quotes from Kathryn Bigelow

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

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.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

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.

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, whereas film was not.

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

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.