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 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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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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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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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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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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I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
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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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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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That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
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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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I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.
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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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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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I remember when I read in the news that 'Wonder Woman' had been cast, and my heart sank. I had been talking to the studio for so long about doing it, and I was like, 'Well, 'that's that.' I'm sure we wouldn't have made the same choice.