Patty Jenkins Quotes
TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
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My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.
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When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.
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TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.
