Kimberly Peirce Quotes

You talk to any director, it`s tough. It`s tough to make movies that you love.

I like to go for the reality, I like to go for what`s underneath. And I don`t even judge it. But that isn`t what all Hollywood movies are. That`s an example where my success in `Boys (Don`t Cry)` brought me this great Hollywood career and all these offers that I really appreciate, but I really have a very particular thing that I like doing. I love real emotion, I love real drama.

You talk to any director, it's tough. It's tough to make movies that you love.

I like to go for the reality, I like to go for what's underneath. And I don't even judge it. But that isn't what all Hollywood movies are. That's an example where my success in 'Boys (Don't Cry)' brought me this great Hollywood career and all these offers that I really appreciate, but I really have a very particular thing that I like doing. I love real emotion, I love real drama.

(On The Godfather) It showed me that I can take that love of the gangster movie and I can screen it through a family drama. In both my movies family is really important, violence is really important. I'm really interested in the psychological and the authentic portrayal of violence-particularly violence that comes out of emotions. Before The Godfather, I don't know that you could have such a violent psychological film that was that broadly entertaining.