Making Movie Quotes by Patty Jenkins

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…

— Patty Jenkins

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

— Patty Jenkins

It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.

— Patty Jenkins

It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.

— Patty Jenkins

Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.

— Patty Jenkins

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…

— Patty Jenkins

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

— Patty Jenkins

I have an aggressive streak of my own.

— Patty Jenkins

It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.

— Patty Jenkins

I can't take on the history of 50 percent of the population just because I'm a woman.

— Patty Jenkins

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…

— Patty Jenkins

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

— Patty Jenkins

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

— Patty Jenkins

I don't think I could have made a good movie out of 'Thor 2' because I wasn't the right director. And I don't think…

— Patty Jenkins

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…

— Patty Jenkins