Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.
From Catherine Hardwicke
I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.
I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.
Obviously, 'Twilight' had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn't make the movie. Fox wouldn't make it. Nobody wanted to do it.
Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.
I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.
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.
We can learn from everybody.
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.
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