Joe Wright Quotes

Joe Wright — English Director born on August 25, 1972,

Joe Wright is an English film director known for the romance film Pride & Prejudice , the romantic drama war film Atonement , the action thriller Hanna , and his 2012 adaptation of the classic Anna Karenina. His most recent film, Pan, is a Peter Pan origin story... (wikipedia)

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

'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.

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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