Joe Wright Quotes
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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've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
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I was once called a hack, and when you put as much emotion into a piece of work as I do, to be called a hack is really heartbreaking.
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I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
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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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I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'
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Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.
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I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
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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 fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.
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I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.
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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 find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.
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I'm not good when idle.
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I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
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The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.
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With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.
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When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.