Latest Joe Wright Quotes from Interviews

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• I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.

  Joe Wright

  Emotional, Ideas, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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

  Thinking, Years, Yesterday

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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

  Art, Drama, School

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

  Joe Wright

  People, Lucky, Happened

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

  Joe Wright

  Dwelling, Literature, Modern

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

  Joe Wright

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  Source: collider.com

• I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.

  Joe Wright

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.

  Joe Wright

  Teenager, Thinking, Might

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Adventure, Expectations, Want

  Source: collider.com

• My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

  Joe Wright

  Cutting, Firsts, Studios

  Source: collider.com

• I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.

  Joe Wright

  Long, Atonement, Known

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Taken, Cutting, Done

  Source: collider.com

• I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

  Joe Wright

  Play, Trying, Dimensions

  Source: collider.com

• I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

  Joe Wright

  Blue, Careers, Decision

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Children, Eye, Adults

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com