Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine HardwickeOctober 21, 1955) is an American film director, production designer and screenwriter. Her works include the Academy Award-nominated independent film Thirteen, which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, the Biblically-themed The Nativity Story, the vampire film Twilight, the werewolf film Red Riding Hood, and the classic skateboarding film Lords of Dogtown. The opening weekend of Twilight was the biggest opening ever for a female director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth21 October 1955
CityCameron, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I don't like the sterility of the casting office.
How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.
For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.
Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?
Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.
As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.
As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.
As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.
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.
A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.
I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.
There's so many versions of 'Red Riding Hood.' It goes back 700 years.
I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.