“Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.”

“You never think the universe will reward your first choice – it just doesn’t work like that.”

“There should be more women directing; I think there’s just not the awareness that it’s really possible.”

“Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.”

“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”

“I respond to movies that get in your face, that have the ability to be provocative or challenge you, that take some risks.”

~Kathryn Bigelow

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Bigelow is nominated for Best Director for the movie “The Hurt Locker”.

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951 in San Carlos, CA) is an American film director. Her best-known films are the horror film Near Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), and the critically-acclaimed The Hurt Locker (2009). She was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, which she was awarded for “The Hurt Locker”. For that film she also won the Best Film and Best Director at the 2010 British Academy Film Awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar. She is the first female ever to win a BAFTA Award for Best Direction and fourth ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.

Trivia: She was married to James Cameron, Avatar, from 1989 to 1991.

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