Patty Jenkins

“You do what you believe in.”

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

“I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.”

“Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.”

“Who should make a great movie about Wonder Woman? It should be somebody who loves Wonder Woman. And I know that I'm that. So let's go and try.”

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

“When I'm on a movie, I'm unavailable every day for a year and a half. You can't do that with a little baby. Somebody might be able to do it, but not me.”

“I've had tragedy in my life, and it doesn't stop comedy, so I think it's important to do both. Particularly in a superhero movie, but in any movie that accesses all people. Nobody wants to be abused for two hours.”

“Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.”

“I am super-comfortable with powerful women.”

“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.”

“I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing 'Wonder Woman 2,' I thought, 'Well, these are so intense, making these movies. It's a lot to think about doing more.' But then I had an epiphany, and I thought, 'Oh, it's not more - it's better.'”

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

“To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.”

“Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.”

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

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