“Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then...” — Catherine Hardwicke Quote

Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.

I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

You never know before the season, when you get new players, how the chemistry is going to develop and how the season is going to go.

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.