I've had tragedy in my life, and it doesn't stop comedy, so I think it's important to do both. Particularly in a superhero movie, but in any movie that accesses all people. Nobody wants to be abused for two hours.

The education of going through the 'Thor' experience was great.

I am super-comfortable with powerful women.

If you look at the history of Wonder Woman, you look at the iconography, the images that have kept her alive - they're not dark. The thing I think is so important to always keep in mind about her is how positive and bright and shiny she is - very much in the same way that Superman has been.

I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.

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.

I think that what Wonder Woman stands for is gorgeous and incredible.

Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.

I did not necessarily feel that Hollywood was interested in what I wanted to do. They wanted me to do what they wanted to do.

I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.

I love that duality of Wonder Woman: that she both wants peace and means peace, but when push comes to shove and someone needs to be put down like a dog, that's what she would be willing to do.

The thing about 'Wonder Woman,' which is very feminine and definitely different, is that her objective is to bring love and truth to mankind.

I have a high bar for myself already; I always want to do something beautiful and meaningful.

There was a movie I was trying to make right after 'Monster,' a bigger behemoth: the Chuck Yeager story. It was a life dream, but it just didn't line up. We just had issues with the life rights, ultimately.

If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.

I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.

TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.

Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.

The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth.

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.

I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment.

In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism.

If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.

Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington's gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

The neoconservative doctrine declares that it is the principal goal of U.S. foreign policy to prevent the rise of any country that would have sufficient power to serve as a check on American unilateralism. This neoconservative doctrine puts Russia and China in Washington's crosshairs.

God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.

Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other's national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.

Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama regimes and Tony Blair in England, the U.S. and U.K. governments have run roughshod over their accountability to law.

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.

Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.

In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

Clearly what differentiates the U.S. from other countries is the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution, we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.

In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.

There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars.