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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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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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 like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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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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I'm not interested in celebrities, with their free dresses. I'm interested in clothes.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklins electrical Rod, smote the Earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod-and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy, Negotiations, Legislatures and War.
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I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.
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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.
