Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Patty Jenkins
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.
I have an aggressive streak of my own.
If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.
I was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.
I'm excited to see her power really soar and us have a great time having a great Wonder Woman in our world.
I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
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.
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.
I've been influenced by a lot of films. And a lot of them are the typical interesting, artsy films. But I haven't talked enough about how there are those few big blockbusters that really rock your world.
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.
Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.
To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.
Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.
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.
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.
We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there's no one like Wonder Woman to do it.
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.
When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.
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.
There's the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like, what an incredible thing to imagine that when the bully shows up or the villain, you would be strong enough to do something about it. But, also, you look like Lynda Carter while you're doing it - like, 'Oh, my God.'
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.
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.
I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.
I had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same.
I have a long love of superhero films, and I'd been saying over and over again to my agents at CAA that I'd like to do one.
I can't stand characters with contradictory information.
I can't take on the history of 50 percent of the population just because I'm a woman.
Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.
There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.
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.
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.
I think you need to have a strong vision of your own.
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.'
It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.
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.
You do what you believe in.
I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.
What I never want to do is start phoning it in and making things just to show that I can keep my foot in the door and do big movies.
I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always a good ambition because you'll never totally hit it.
Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
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.
Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.
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.
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.'
Who should make a great movie about Wonder Woman? It should be somebody who loves Wonder Woman. And I know that I'm that. So let's go and try.
I think making a film that you think is good and you believe in is going to be difficult forever.
A woman doesn't have to direct a woman's film and a man doesn't have to direct a man's film; otherwise, where would we be?
We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
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.
Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.
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.
It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.
New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.
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.
I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta - you know what I mean?
I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.
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