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“To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.”
“Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.”
“I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas. 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.”
“It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.”
“There was a very difficult time when a female hero was a man in a woman's body. 'Hunger Games' really changed that: a woman leading a non-woman's film in the action genre. I think 'Wonder Woman' does that on a very big scale.”
“That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.”
“Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it's to have a vision and then try to hold that vision and not have it change.”
“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.”
“Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.”
“There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.”
“Being the person who gets to make a movie about Wonder Woman, of course, I take that incredibly seriously. I am a huge Wonder Woman fan, and the aspiration comes totally naturally to me.”
“I don't think I could have made a good movie out of 'Thor 2' because I wasn't the right director. And I don't think I would have been in the running for 'Wonder Woman' as a result. And that's one of the reasons why I'm glad I didn't do it.”
“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.”
“There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.”
“It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.”
“I'm excited to see her power really soar and us have a great time having a great Wonder Woman in our world.”
“De Niro didn't gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat - every single one of those transformative things is grounded in the character.”