Patty Jenkins Quotes

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

Human beings can do some God-awful things to other human beings

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.