Joe Wright famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Writing #Thinking #Inability
I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.
-- Joe Wright

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

#Sweet #Dark #Sides
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

#Believe #Pride #Wish
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

#Choices #Feelings #Intuition
My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
-- Joe Wright

#Father #Together #Born
I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
-- Joe Wright

#Past #Years #Lucky
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
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

#Jobs #Creating #People
I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
-- Joe Wright

#Ideas #Comfort #Comfort Zone
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
-- Joe Wright

#Ironic #Fairytale #Happy Endings
I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
-- Joe Wright

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

#Art #Division #Film
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

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

#Giving #Chance #Film
An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
-- Joe Wright

#Mean #Artist #Suffering
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 #Directors #Actors
So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.
-- Joe Wright

#Lying #America #People
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

#Art #Political #Action

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