Patty Jenkins Quotes

Patty Jenkins

Profession : Director

Birth : July 24, 1971

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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Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

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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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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 have more information than anybody's ever had about this case. I have 7,000 letters from Aileen Wuornos and all the letters between her and her girlfriend.

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If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

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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 know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.

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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 had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same.

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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'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

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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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You do what you believe in.

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We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.

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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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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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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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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. For some reason, being in Kansas, you can either be a graphic artist or a visual artist, so I decided, 'I guess I'm going to be a painter.'

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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.

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