Quote

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

Joe Wright

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joe Wright
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 25
Film Director
Television Director
London
England
Happy
Find
Nothing
Endings
Ironic
Called

More quotes by Joe Wright

Image
I think Pan is a superhero movie I mean, the kid flies in the end.
Joe Wright
Image
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
Image
I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.
Joe Wright
Image
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.
Joe Wright
Image
My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
Joe Wright
Image
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
Joe Wright
Image
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright
Image
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.
Joe Wright
Image
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
Image
One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often.
Joe Wright
Image
I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work.
Joe Wright
Image
I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
Joe Wright
Image
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
Image
I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.
Joe Wright
Image
I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.
Joe Wright
Image
I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
Joe Wright
Image
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
Image
I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.
Joe Wright
Image
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
Image
An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
Joe Wright