Quotes by Joe Wright

Joe Wright

3D doesn’t work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

Cutting

Done

Taken

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

Artist

Mean

Suffering

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

Chance

Film

Giving

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

Dark

Overcoming

Sweet

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.

Behave

Film

Fit

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.

Actors

Dad

Directors

I don’t ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the – What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I’ve gotten away with that, I’ve managed that.

Adventure

Expectations

Want

I don’t make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Art

Division

Film

I feel more in touch with the world when I’m filming.

Feels

World

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there’s nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

Fairytale

Happy Endings

Ironic

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Comfort Zone

Creating

Creativity

Cutting

Dad

Dark

Decision

Dimensions

Directors

Division

Done

Drama

Dwelling

Emotional

England And America

Expectations

Eye

Fairytale

Father

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Feels

Film

Firsts

Fit

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Quotes by Joe Wright

Joe Wright

3D doesn’t work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don’t make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I feel more in touch with the world when I’m filming.

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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