Joe Wright Quotes

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

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.

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.

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

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.

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.

'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.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

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.

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.

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.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.