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I have an aggressive streak of my own.
To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.
To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.
It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.
I was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.
Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.
I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.
I can't stand characters with contradictory information.
Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.
I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.
The education of going through the 'Thor' experience was great.
I think that what Wonder Woman stands for is gorgeous and incredible.
We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.
I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people; they fight villains.
I can't take on the history of 50 percent of the population just because I'm a woman.
I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.
I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.
That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.
If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.
I have a high bar for myself already; I always want to do something beautiful and meaningful.
We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there's no one like Wonder Woman to do it.
There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.
The idea of getting to make a movie like the ones that impacted me as a child is my life's dream.
I had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same.
I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.
It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.
If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.
I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.
I'm excited to see her power really soar and us have a great time having a great Wonder Woman in our world.
It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.
When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.
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.
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 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.
I always say that 'Star Wars' had a huge effect on me, too, but what 'Star Wars' did for some people, 'Superman' did for me.
I was aware that I was the first person of all time getting to direct a Wonder Woman film, and that was taken very seriously.
To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.
I grew up in a family of fighter pilots, and I have a real kindred spirit to that kind of fast-moving aggression and momentum.
Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.
New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.
It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.
What I never want to do is start phoning it in and making things just to show that I can keep my foot in the door and do big movies.
Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.
I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn't do something.