20 Joe Wright Quotes for You to Enjoy

Joe Wright

English Director

Born: Aug 25, 1972

Actor Film Good Made Work World

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

World Touch More Feel Filming

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. Joe Wright

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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. Joe Wright

Happy Nothing Find About Most Because Fairytale Ironic Endings Now

'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. Joe Wright

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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. Joe Wright

Director Learned Because How Cameraman Dad Actor Designer

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling. Joe Wright

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I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone. Joe Wright

Something Outside Idea Like Comfort Comfort Zone Doing Zone

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work. Joe Wright

Work Presume Something Through Attempt Know Learn Lots

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

Art Division Between Make Commercial Film

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

Needs Live Artist Create Means Suffer

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. Joe Wright

Work You Once Emotion Hack Put Piece Heartbreaking Much Really

'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before. Joe Wright

Life Me Dark Made My Life Before Changed Side Charles Poetry Chaucer Spoke Velvet Like Ecstasy Reached Read Understand Terror Always Been Discovered Sublime Forever Blue Suddenly

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.' Joe Wright

Atonement Had Making After Breakdown

American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them. Joe Wright

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Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my parents' puppet theatre was such a special place - people used their imaginations. It's a muscle that needs using. Joe Wright

Needs Experience Theatre People Made Parents Become Puppet Participate Audience Passive Contract Very Where Place Used Special Using Special Place Film Why Muscle Imaginations

I'm not good when idle. Joe Wright

Good Idle

That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul. Joe Wright

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