Kathryn Bigelow

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

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

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.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

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