I’m excited to see her power really soar and us have a great time having a great Wonder Woman in our world.
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.
I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.
I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn’t thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That’s always a good ambition because you’ll never totally hit it.
I try not to buy into that whole, crazy ‘you are what you drive’ mentality here, but I wouldn’t want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta – you know what I mean?
I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.
The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don’t like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.
There’s Batman, there’s Superman, there’s Wonder Woman. She’s the full-blown real deal.
I believe in Wonder Woman and the true spirit of Wonder Woman, and I wanted to tell that story. I didn’t want to make her an alt version of Wonder Woman.
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.
When people are crass or loudmouthed, it’s not because they don’t give a damn. It’s from fear and insecurity.
I can’t stand characters with contradictory information.
Hollywood can’t stand heroes who aren’t sympathetic.
It’s rare that a character film is easy to fund.
Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, ‘Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!’ That’s starting to change.
You do what you believe in.
I had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same.
I’m as interested in exceptional characters as men are.
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