Quotes from Patty Jenkins

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.'

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

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.

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 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.

I always say that 'Star Wars' had a huge effect on me, too, but what 'Star Wars' did for some people, 'Superman' did for me.

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

To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.

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

Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.

There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.

I grew up very inspired by 'Superman One' and by kind of the promise of the genre of what a superhero origin story can do.

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

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

I can't stand characters with contradictory information.

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