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… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas. — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate. — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you. — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be. — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can't take on the history of 50 percent of the population just because I'm a woman. — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same. — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
