Joe Wright Quotes
I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
Quotes to Explore
-
Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
-
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
-
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
-
Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
-
I shall always be a priest of love.
-
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
-
I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
-
Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
-
Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
-
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
-
I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
-
I've always had very catholic tastes.
-
I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.
-
Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.
-
I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
-
A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
-
'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
-
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
-
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
-
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
-
God does not leave you wondering whether you are saved or not. He tells you outright that you are His and that nothing can ever separate you from the love of Christ. Not even sin because His blood is greater than your sin!
-
I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.
-
I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.
-
I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
