Quotes from Patty Jenkins

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

I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta - you know what I mean?

There was a movie I was trying to make right after 'Monster,' a bigger behemoth: the Chuck Yeager story. It was a life dream, but it just didn't line up. We just had issues with the life rights, ultimately.

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.

It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.

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

Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

I have an aggressive streak of my own.

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 or the Roman myths or religious figures of every religion. These are common characters that we use to express stories about being a better person or what you would do when faced with various things.

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

When I made 'Monster,' I didn't think about it being about a woman. I didn't think about that she was a lesbian. I was telling a story about a specific person who was tragic and looking for love in the world, and the more I could make her you, the more of a victory.

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 conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.

The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.

Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.

I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people; they fight villains.

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

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