American - Director | July 24, 1971 -
I had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same.
Patty Jenkins
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That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
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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.'
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I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
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It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.
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Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
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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.
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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.
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My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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