KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Joe Wright Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Joe Wright

Showing 1-10 of 42 Quotes by 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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

~Joe Wright

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.

~Joe Wright

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm not good when idle.

~Joe Wright

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


'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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

~Joe Wright

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

~Joe Wright

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

~Joe Wright

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural.

~Joe Wright

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: August 25th, 1972

Links

Find Joe Wright on Amazon

Related Authors

Danny Boyle
Mike Figgis
Paul Greengrass
Alfred Hitchcock
Roland Joffe
Adrian Lyne
Trevor Nunn
Nicolas Roeg

Popular Authors

Noel Coward Albert Einstein Epictetus Mitch Hedberg Kim Kardashian Martin Luther Satchel Paige George S. Patton

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1799 - Honore De Balzac

1806 - John Stuart Mill

1743 - Toussaint Louverture

1768 - Dolley Madison

1825 - Antoinette Brown Blackwell

1825 - George Phillips Bond

1860 - Eduard Buchner

1882 - Sigrid Undset

1889 - Margery Allingham

1891 - Earl Browder

Birthdays on May 20th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Fitness Food Great History Inspirational New Year's Saint Patrick's Day