• Born November 27, 1951 · San Carlos, California, USA
• Birth name Kathryn Ann Bigelow

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QUOTES:

• I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off The Hurt Locker (2008) and I’m thinking of the war and I think it’s a deplorable situation. It’s a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about.
• You cast not for marquee value but for performance and talent. The right actor for the part. Anything else is a compromise.
• [on The Hurt Locker (2008)] War’s dirty little secret is that some men love it. I’m trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.
• Usually what happens is there will be an urgency, and then I can do nothing else but that. [But] events like this [the killing of Osama bin Laden] only come along once or twice in a millennium.
• [on Zero Dark Thirty (2012)] I feel we got it right. I’m proud of the movie, and I stand behind it completely. I think that it’s a deeply moral movie that questions the use of force. It questions what was done in the name of finding [Osama bin Laden].
• Once you’ve opened the window on topical material, its very hard to close it. Holding up a contemporary mirror is more attractive to me now than ever.

• Born November 27, 1940 · San Francisco, California, USA
• Died July 20, 1973 · Kowloon, Hong Kong (cerebral edema
• )
• Birth name Lee Jun Fan

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QUOTES:

• If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread over into your work, into your mortality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.
• There’s no challenge in breaking a board. Boards don’t hit back.
• Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
• Martial art is ultimately an athletic expression of the dynamic human body. More important yet, is the person who is expressing his own soul.