Joe Wright Quotes
'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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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Having to top yourself is a good problem to have.
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Sundance is weird. The movies are weird-you actually have to think about them when you watch them.
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Every season of 'Teen Wolf' was really cool and exciting and unique, but there was just something about the first season story-wise that was, I think, the coolest.
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Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?
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I think we have to fight the idea - that I think a lot of us have internalized - that it is difficult to work with other women. We really need to embrace collaboration with other women. We need to seek out other women to promote.
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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.
