“I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don'...” — Catherine Hardwicke Quote

“I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.”

“I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.”

“The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I've heard at junior high schools I've visited, I'd be scared and humiliated.”

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

“You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'”

“Sheep are just psychotic.”

“Hope flares in her chest, and she thinks, This, this, this is where her story starts.”

“The minute you find out what makes you different, the minute you love it and accept it and say you wouldn't change who you are, that's when you become dangerous.”

“I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.”

“This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.”

“Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.”

“This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning.”