Kathryn Bigelow

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.