Patty Jenkins Quotes
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I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.
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I was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.
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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 don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.
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There was a very difficult time when a female hero was a man in a woman's body. 'Hunger Games' really changed that: a woman leading a non-woman's film in the action genre. I think 'Wonder Woman' does that on a very big scale.
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There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.
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I think you need to have a strong vision of your own.
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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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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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Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
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The education of going through the 'Thor' experience was great.
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I do care about success and all of those things. But I don't care enough to do movies just for that reason.
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Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.
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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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I love that duality of Wonder Woman: that she both wants peace and means peace, but when push comes to shove and someone needs to be put down like a dog, that's what she would be willing to do.
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There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.
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Just look at Gal Gadot when she smiles or when she meets somebody and shakes their hand. That is the embodiment of Wonder Woman. She is so beautiful and powerful, but kind and generous and thoughtful. She's just an amazing person.
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It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.
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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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I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn't do something.
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You do what you believe in.
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We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there's no one like Wonder Woman to do it.
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Being the person who gets to make a movie about Wonder Woman, of course, I take that incredibly seriously. I am a huge Wonder Woman fan, and the aspiration comes totally naturally to me.