“I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - sh...” — Patricia Riggen Quote

I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.

Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.