Joe Wright Quotes

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright

Happy, Bad, Dark

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

Dad, Learned, Actor

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

Live, Means, Artist

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
Joe Wright

Time, Learn, Chance

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.
Joe Wright

Life, Making, Film

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

Art, Between, Film

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

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

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

Idea, Outside, Comfort

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
Joe Wright

Job, Realize, Full

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, Through, Learn

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
Joe Wright

Past, Few, Lucky

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
Joe Wright

Time, Father, Together

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
Joe Wright

Knowledge, Find, Write

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

Feeling, Through, Intuition

'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

Life, Happy, Important

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Joe Wright

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Nationality: English

Born: August 25, 1972

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