Joe Wright Quotes
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I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'
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I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.
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My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
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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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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 it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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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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Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.
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I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'
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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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'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've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
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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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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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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.
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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.