TSPDT - Kathryn Bigelow


	"Kathryn Bigelow is one of the few women directors working successfully in Hollywood today. She is certainly exceptional in that much of her work has been made within the traditionally male-dominated arena of big-budget action movies, a choice of field that has earned her a reputation as quite a maverick. However, Bigelow's films often reflect a different approach to these genres because she consistently explores themes of violence, voyeurism and sexual politics; ultimately, she seems to be concerned with questioning the very nature of the boundaries between particular genres." - Hannah Ransley (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002)

	"At the rate she makes films, this American director's career list is unlikely to be counted on more than the fingers of two hands. What films she has made have usually proved noisy, nasty and watchable: there are few smiles in a Bigelow movie." - David Quinlan (Quinlan's Illustrated Guide to Film Directors, 1999)

	"Bigelow has been quoted as saying that "action cinema is pure cinema." To which one must add that it may only expose the dangers of trying to do without character or good sense. Why does the cinema need to be so pure? Has anyone ever observed that state in its manufacture? Since Strange Days, she has made two more films that struggled to get a proper release." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)