Catherine Hardwicke

I directed the first

I directed the first Twilight movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn’t feel as connected to the other books. 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. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there’s 20 people that spun off of Twilight that have … Read more

People are more likely

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them. Catherine Hardwicke

I really wanted our

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

I used to be

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

I just wrote a

I just wrote a really cool script. It’s called One Track Mind. It’s an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history. Catherine Hardwicke

I think it’s true

I think it’s true that the more sanitized a person is, you can’t really relate to that person. Catherine Hardwicke

Even after I had

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 … Read more

When I was just

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

I can go back

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 … Read more