Explore Quotes by Catherine Hardwicke

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

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

You're fearless when you're a kid.

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

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.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

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.

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.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

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.

Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

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.

My first movie, 'Thirteen,' and it was very real - almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.