Patty Jenkins Quotes
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You do what you believe in.
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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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My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas. I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater even though I didn't want to act.
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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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If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.
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When I made 'Monster,' I didn't think about it being about a woman. I didn't think about that she was a lesbian. I was telling a story about a specific person who was tragic and looking for love in the world, and the more I could make her you, the more of a victory.
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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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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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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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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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There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.
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To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.
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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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I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.
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I grew up in a family of fighter pilots, and I have a real kindred spirit to that kind of fast-moving aggression and momentum.