Top 36 Quotes About Joe Wright
#1. Joe Wright [was] almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.
Saoirse Ronan
#2. Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.
Donald Sutherland
#3. I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
Joe Wright
#4. I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.
Joe Wright
#5. I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.
Joe Wright
#6. 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
#7. I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
Joe Wright
#8. 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
#9. I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.
Muhammad Ali
#10. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.
Muhammad Ali
#11. I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
Tasha Smith
#12. Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright
#13. Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
Joe Wright
#14. I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
Joe Wright
#15. My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.
Joe Wright
#16. I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.
Joe Wright
#17. Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
Joe Wright
#18. I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
Joe Wright
#19. I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
Joe Wright
#20. I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
Joe Wright
#21. '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
#22. 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
#23. I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.
Joe Wright
#24. 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
#25. Joe was so tired that he had slept through first hour Spanish, second hour history, and most of third hour English. The English teacher, Mrs. Lane, hadn't taken a liking to that. She decided to send Joe to the principal to discuss why he was so sleepy, which Joe hadn't taken a liking to.
Belart Wright
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
Joe Wright
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.
Joe Wright
#35. I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
Joe Wright
#36. My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
Joe Wright
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