Patty Jenkins Quotes
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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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I think that what Wonder Woman stands for is gorgeous and incredible.
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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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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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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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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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Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
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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 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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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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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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Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.
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I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing 'Wonder Woman 2,' I thought, 'Well, these are so intense, making these movies. It's a lot to think about doing more.' But then I had an epiphany, and I thought, 'Oh, it's not more - it's better.'
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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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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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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.
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That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
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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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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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Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.
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It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.
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The education of going through the 'Thor' experience was great.
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We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.