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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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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.
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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 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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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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I was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.
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Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
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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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Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.
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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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De Niro didn't gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat - every single one of those transformative things is grounded in the character.
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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 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 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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At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.
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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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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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I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.
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I think you need to have a strong vision of your own.
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Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.
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If you look at the history of Wonder Woman, you look at the iconography, the images that have kept her alive - they're not dark. The thing I think is so important to always keep in mind about her is how positive and bright and shiny she is - very much in the same way that Superman has been.
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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.
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When I'm on a movie, I'm unavailable every day for a year and a half. You can't do that with a little baby. Somebody might be able to do it, but not me.
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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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