Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American director, producer and writer. Her films include the vampire Western horror film Near Dark, the action crime film Point Break, the science fiction action thriller Strange Days, the mystery thriller The Weight of Water, the submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker, the war film The Hurt Locker, the action thriller war film Zero Dark Thirty, and the short film Last Days of Ivory. The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth27 November 1951
CitySan Carlos, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
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.
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
If the film has a seductive nature at all, it's there to draw the viewer in, but I create the visuals in a way that seems absolutely inevitable to me.
My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.
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 only have so much money to shoot a movie with.
Art does imitate life, and the Rodney King beating was a real event. It's a part of all our consciousness, and there's no value in ignoring it.
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.
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.