Quotes By 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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