‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘I Am The Night’ Director Patty Jenkins Makes Her Own Rules

In Hollywood, playing by the rules doesn’t cut it, especially as they keep changing.

After directing her 2003 feature debut “Monster,” which won Charlize Theron the Best Actress Oscar, Patty Jenkins was inundated with offers to direct.

They just weren’t what she was looking for.

And when she decided to direct television for money – and movies for love – her advisers counseled her against it.

But she helped to launch “Arrested Development” on Fox and AMC mystery series “The Killing,” and landed an Emmy nomination and DGA win for that 2011 pilot.When Marvel changed direction on a superhero movie Jenkins had agreed to make, and proceeded with “Thor” instead, Jenkins withdrew as director.

She knew that the odds were not in her favor, and should the movie not come out well, she’d be held more accountable than any male director.

Things worked out: she had more passion for and

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