Patty Jenkins Quotes
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If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.
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I have an aggressive streak of my own.
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I can't stand characters with contradictory information.
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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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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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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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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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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 can't take on the history of 50 percent of the population just because I'm a woman.
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I was aware that I was the first person of all time getting to direct a Wonder Woman film, and that was taken very seriously.
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It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the Greek myths or the Roman myths or religious figures of every religion. These are common characters that we use to express stories about being a better person or what you would do when faced with various things.
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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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There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.
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I grew up very inspired by 'Superman One' and by kind of the promise of the genre of what a superhero origin story can do.
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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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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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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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The thing about 'Wonder Woman,' which is very feminine and definitely different, is that her objective is to bring love and truth to mankind.
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To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.
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I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.
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As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.
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To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.
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New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.
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I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.