For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over. Catherine Hardwicke More Quotes by Catherine Hardwicke More Quotes From Catherine Hardwicke You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning. Catherine Hardwicke sibling dark feelings We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore. Catherine Hardwicke dad brother children I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. 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Catherine Hardwicke issues fun interesting 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 coaster ride. Catherine Hardwicke nostalgic moments believe As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene. Catherine Hardwicke cutting ideas moving I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now." Catherine Hardwicke good-movie together thinking When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row. Catherine Hardwicke halloween mom years 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 the green light. Catherine Hardwicke light together directors 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 those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project. Catherine Hardwicke trying mean people For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make it and they didn't think it would make any money, but I read the book and I thought, "Wow, I want to capture that feeling of just being crazy in love. I wonder if I can do that in a film." That was my challenge. Catherine Hardwicke crazy twilight book 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. Catherine Hardwicke passionate might people Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow. Catherine Hardwicke twilight love-is thinking Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience. 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