American - Director | July 24, 1971 -
New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.
Patty Jenkins
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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.
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I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.
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TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.
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I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.
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At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.
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I do care about success and all of those things. But I don't care enough to do movies just for that reason.
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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.
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