Patty Jenkins Quotes

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.