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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.
Kathryn Bigelow
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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
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On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
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When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
Kathryn Bigelow
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You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.
Kathryn Bigelow
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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.
Kathryn Bigelow
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When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
Kathryn Bigelow
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The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Kathryn Bigelow
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My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Kathryn Bigelow
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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.
Kathryn Bigelow
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Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
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One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.
Kathryn Bigelow
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There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
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