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Patty Jenkins
American
Director
Born:
Jul 24
,
1971
Love
Me
People
Think
Woman
You
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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.
Patty Jenkins
People
Fear
Insecurity
Damn
Give
Because
It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.
Patty Jenkins
You
Signs
Down
Trees
Strip
Sun
Beating
Hot
Highways
Malls
Florida
Palm
I think that what Wonder Woman stands for is gorgeous and incredible.
Patty Jenkins
Woman
Gorgeous
Think
Incredible
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Stands
I'm excited to see her power really soar and us have a great time having a great Wonder Woman in our world.
Patty Jenkins
Time
Great
Woman
World
Power
Our
Our World
See
Having
Excited
Great Time
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Soar
Us
Really
Her
There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.
Patty Jenkins
Woman
Superman
Batman
She
Deal
Real
Real Deal
Wonder
Wonder Woman
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.
Patty Jenkins
Love
Needs
Peace
Woman
Dog
Down
Willing
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Both
Push
Put
Like
She
Duality
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Wants
Means
Shove
I can't stand characters with contradictory information.
Patty Jenkins
Characters
Contradictory
Information
Stand
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.
Patty Jenkins
Love
Saying
Long
Films
Superhero
Over
Like
Been
Again
Agents
It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.
Patty Jenkins
Character
Rare
Easy
Fund
Film
I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.
Patty Jenkins
Women
Pet
Characters
Look
Real
Who
Play
Damaged
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.
Patty Jenkins
Day
Experience
Every Day
People
Wake Up
Bad Things
Every
Bad
Been
Wake
Up
Wallow
Happened
Them
Things
Damaged
Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.
Patty Jenkins
Too
Frankly
Having
Like
Well
Issues
Lots
Things
If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.
Patty Jenkins
You
True
Name
Like
True Story
Anyone
Story
Use
Film
Based
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.
Patty Jenkins
Character
Single
Every
Those
Niro
Could
Weight
He
De Niro
Prove
La
Get
Just
Gain
Transformative
Grounded
Play
Things
Fat
I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
Patty Jenkins
Man
Woman
Tough
Know
Version
Very
Different
I had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same.
Patty Jenkins
Me
Other
Worlds
Had
Educate
Same
Helped
Basically
Adapt
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
Patty Jenkins
Summers
Spent
Had
Idea
Like
Mississippi
South
Up
Growing
Growing Up
You do what you believe in.
Patty Jenkins
You
Believe
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.
Patty Jenkins
Life
Lie
Sympathy
Circumstances
Someone
Question
Won
Any
Interested
Based
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.
Patty Jenkins
Love
Music
Together
School
Painting
Drama
Took
Everything
Visual
Visual Arts
Soon
New
Course
Clicked
Came
York
Arts
New York
Experimental
Realized
Film
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.
Patty Jenkins
World
Big
Few
Films
Enough
Typical
Those
About
Talked
Rock
How
Blockbusters
Been
Lot
Influenced
Interesting
Them
Really
Your
To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.
Patty Jenkins
Time
You
Director
Calm
Military
Those
Reliable
See
Confident
Things
Need
I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.
Patty Jenkins
Great
Woman
Films
Great Film
About
Lifetime
Make
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Want
Really
Film
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.
Patty Jenkins
Me
Woman
Seriously
Incredibly
Totally
About
Take
Make
Course
Am
Huge
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Person
Gets
Being
Movie
Fan
Aspiration
Naturally
Who
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.
Patty Jenkins
Truth
Truth Is
People
Gender
Whatever
Different Kinds
Action
Other
Kinds
More
Part
Idea
Attractive
Than
Any
Different
Story
Movies
Action Movies
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.
Patty Jenkins
News
Woman
Heart
Remember
Made
Long
About
Cast
Had
Remember When
Studio
Like
Well
Read
Talking
Sure
Doing
Been
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Same
Choice
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