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17 quotes by Joe Wright

Joe Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director known for the romance film Pride & Prejudice (2005), the romantic drama war film Atonement (2007), the action thriller Hanna (2011), and his 2012 adaptation of the classic Anna Karenina. He is currently filming Pan, a retelling of Peter Pan.
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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 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 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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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 feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

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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... →

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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... →

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I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

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