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Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.
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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.
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I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.
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I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
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Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.
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I did not necessarily feel that Hollywood was interested in what I wanted to do. They wanted me to do what they wanted to do.
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I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta - you know what I mean?
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I believe in Wonder Woman and the true spirit of Wonder Woman, and I wanted to tell that story. I didn't want to make her an alt version of Wonder Woman.
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The idea of getting to make a movie like the ones that impacted me as a child is my life's dream.
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That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
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I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.
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I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.
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Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.
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We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
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It's like there's something very maternal about Wonder Woman: when push comes to shove, if nobody else wants to do it, Wonder Woman would step up and take care of business. But she doesn't want to do it, and she would never take any delight in it. That's Wonder Woman to me.
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It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.
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I'm making a movie about Wonder Woman, who I love, who to me is one of the great superheroes, so I just treated her like a universal character, and that's what I think is the next step when I think you can do that more and more and when studios have the confidence to do that more and more.
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My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody would love me, too. I think that's intrinsic to fantasy - fantasy is fantasy.
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What I never want to do is start phoning it in and making things just to show that I can keep my foot in the door and do big movies.
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There was a movie I was trying to make right after 'Monster,' a bigger behemoth: the Chuck Yeager story. It was a life dream, but it just didn't line up. We just had issues with the life rights, ultimately.
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I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always a good ambition because you'll never totally hit it.
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You do what you believe in.
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I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
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Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
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