Who should make a great movie about Wonder Woman? It should be somebody who loves Wonder Woman. And I know that I'm that. So let's go and try.

Being the person who gets to make a movie about Wonder Woman, of course, I take that incredibly seriously. I am a huge Wonder Woman fan, and the aspiration comes totally naturally to me.

I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

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'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.

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.'

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

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.

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.

We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.

You do what you believe in.

It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.

I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.

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.

Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.

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.

There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.

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 was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.

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.

I think making a film that you think is good and you believe in is going to be difficult forever.