Joe Wright Quotes
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Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.
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An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
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I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.
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I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.
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I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
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Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.
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I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.
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I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
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Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
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I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
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One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often.
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I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.
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I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work.
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I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.
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I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.
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I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
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I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
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My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
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3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.
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I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.
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I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
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Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.
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Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
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I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.
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I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
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I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.
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I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.
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I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.
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Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
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