Patty Jenkins Quotes

Patty Jenkins

Profession : Director

Birth : July 24, 1971

I am super-comfortable with powerful women.

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I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.

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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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I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.

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I believe in Wonder Woman and the true spirit of Wonder Woman, and I wanted to tell that story. I didn't want to make her an alt version of Wonder Woman.

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I think that what Wonder Woman stands for is gorgeous and incredible.

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Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.

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My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody would love me, too. I think that's intrinsic to fantasy - fantasy is fantasy.

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I did not necessarily feel that Hollywood was interested in what I wanted to do. They wanted me to do what they wanted to do.

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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 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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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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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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I have a high bar for myself already; I always want to do something beautiful and meaningful.

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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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If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.

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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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My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.

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I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.

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TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.

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