Joe Wright
Joe Wright
Joe Wrightis an English film director known for the romance film Pride & Prejudice, the romantic drama war film Atonement, the action thriller Hanna, and his 2012 adaptation of the classic Anna Karenina. His most recent film, Pan, is a Peter Pan origin story...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 August 1972
mean artist suffering
An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
giving chance film
Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
film fit behave
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.
mean kids thinking
I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.
art division film
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
world feels
I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
ironic fairytale happy-endings
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
dwelling literature modern
Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
ideas comfort comfort-zone
I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
knows
I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
past years lucky
I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
thinking years yesterday
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.
father together born
My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
choices feelings intuition
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.