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I see the job of directing as...

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

Joe Wright 51 quotes

I fell in love with film and ...

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

Joe Wright 51 quotes

'Hanna' was nice. It was Saoi...

'Hanna' was nice. It was Saoirse Ronan's idea. Usually, the director casts the actor, but in this case, the actor cast the director.

Joe Wright 51 quotes

I find men odd. I don't reall...

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

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American actors are very diff...

American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.

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I was once called a hack, and...

I was once called a hack, and when you put as much emotion into a piece of work as I do, to be called a hack is really heartbreaking.

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When I left college, I though...

When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.

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Film has become a very passiv...

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my parents' puppet theatre was such a special place - people used their imaginations. It's a muscle that needs using.

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I've made some films that wer...

I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.

Joe Wright 51 quotes

I find man's inhumanity to ma...

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

Joe Wright 51 quotes

Studios are often very nervou...

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.

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I find it ironic that happy e...

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

Joe Wright 51 quotes

Generally, I've never known q...

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.

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Fairy tales to me are never h...

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

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I don't make a division betwe...

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

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You need a pulse in a film. I...

You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

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I've been lucky over the past...

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

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With 'Atonement,' I put a lot...

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.

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'Blue Velvet' changed my life...

'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.

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I couldn't be a cameraman or ...

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.

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