I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

- Catherine Hardwicke

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…

- Catherine Hardwicke

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. …

- Catherine Hardwicke

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

- Catherine Hardwicke

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 …

- Catherine Hardwicke

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for …

- Catherine Hardwicke

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," beca…

- Catherine Hardwicke

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller co…

- Catherine Hardwicke

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

- Catherine Hardwicke