Patty Jenkins Quotes
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I have more information than anybody's ever had about this case. I have 7,000 letters from Aileen Wuornos and all the letters between her and her girlfriend.
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It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.
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Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.
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To me, the two things that Gal Gadot - who is an amazing actress, and she played a great Wonder Woman - but the true things that she actually has inside of her are this incredible warmth and charm that is also informed by great intelligence. It's those two things.
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It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.
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I have a long love of superhero films, and I'd been saying over and over again to my agents at CAA that I'd like to do one.
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I'm excited to see her power really soar and us have a great time having a great Wonder Woman in our world.
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A woman doesn't have to direct a woman's film and a man doesn't have to direct a man's film; otherwise, where would we be?
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If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.
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I don't think I could have made a good movie out of 'Thor 2' because I wasn't the right director. And I don't think I would have been in the running for 'Wonder Woman' as a result. And that's one of the reasons why I'm glad I didn't do it.
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I think making a film that you think is good and you believe in is going to be difficult forever.
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My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.
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To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.
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I've had tragedy in my life, and it doesn't stop comedy, so I think it's important to do both. Particularly in a superhero movie, but in any movie that accesses all people. Nobody wants to be abused for two hours.
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I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people; they fight villains.
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I always say that 'Star Wars' had a huge effect on me, too, but what 'Star Wars' did for some people, 'Superman' did for me.
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As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together.
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I know that I'm carrying a bit of a weight on my shoulders of what I do represents more than just myself as a director. I wish that wasn't true, but it is. It makes me think about doing work that I believe in and that I believe I can do well, probably even a hair more than I would otherwise.
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I think that what Wonder Woman stands for is gorgeous and incredible.
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I've been influenced by a lot of films. And a lot of them are the typical interesting, artsy films. But I haven't talked enough about how there are those few big blockbusters that really rock your world.
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I am super-comfortable with powerful women.
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There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.
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Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.
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My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.