Joe Wright Quotes

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 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.

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

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.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.

I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.

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.

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

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

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.

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

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

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

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.

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

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

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

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

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