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 think that what Wonder Woman stands for is gorgeous and incredible.
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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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I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
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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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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 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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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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Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.
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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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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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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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Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
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That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
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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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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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Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.
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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 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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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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We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
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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.