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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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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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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The great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Music means a great deal to me.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
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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.
