Patty Jenkins

To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.

— Patty Jenkins

To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.

— Patty Jenkins

I have an aggressive streak of my own.

— Patty Jenkins

It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.

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

— Patty Jenkins

I think you need to have a strong vision of your own.

— Patty Jenkins

You do what you believe in.

— Patty Jenkins

I was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.

— Patty Jenkins

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

— Patty Jenkins

There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.

— Patty Jenkins

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

— 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 know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.

— Patty Jenkins

I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.

— Patty Jenkins

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

— Patty Jenkins

There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.

— Patty Jenkins

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

— Patty Jenkins

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things…

— Patty Jenkins

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever.…

— Patty Jenkins

Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it's to have a vision and then try to hold that…

— Patty Jenkins

I was aware that I was the first person of all time getting to direct a Wonder Woman film, and that was…

— Patty Jenkins

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy…

— Patty Jenkins

TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes…

— Patty Jenkins

I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be…

— 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…

— Patty Jenkins

I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing 'Wonder Woman 2,' I thought, 'Well, these…

— Patty Jenkins

There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what…

— Patty Jenkins

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made…

— Patty Jenkins

There was a very difficult time when a female hero was a man in a woman's body. 'Hunger Games' really changed that:…

— Patty Jenkins

I know that I'm carrying a bit of a weight on my shoulders of what I do represents more than just myself…

— Patty Jenkins

I remember when I read in the news that 'Wonder Woman' had been cast, and my heart sank. I had been talking…

— Patty Jenkins

To me, the two things that Gal Gadot - who is an amazing actress, and she played a great Wonder Woman -…

— Patty Jenkins

I am super-comfortable with powerful women.

— Patty Jenkins

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

— Patty Jenkins

I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.

— Patty Jenkins

I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.

— Patty Jenkins

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

— Patty Jenkins

The education of going through the 'Thor' experience was great.

— Patty Jenkins

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

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

— Patty Jenkins