Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

People are nervous about their kids, and they're worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they're living in.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

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?

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

Sheep are just psychotic.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

Stephenie Meyer said she's ready to move on from 'Twilight,' but you never know.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

I had always liked, well, who didn't love Lestat and fall in love with 'Interview with the Vampire,' and 'Nosferatu,' and Coppola's 'Dracula' with the awesome costumes? So I loved all that.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

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.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

I don't like the sterility of the casting office.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

What does 'dating' mean? I don't know. I couldn't say.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

You have a big success, and it's still not easy to make a movie.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.