Patty Jenkins Quotes
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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.
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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'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
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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 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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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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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 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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Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.
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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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When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.
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We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
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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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It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.
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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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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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I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.
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That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
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Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
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I think that, for whatever reason, we've gotten to a place where, particularly in Hollywood, things have to be very pat. Like 'I'm a good guy. I'm a bad guy.'
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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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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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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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The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.