Joe Wright Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

  Joe Wright

  Lying, England And America, People

• Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

  Joe Wright

  Giving, Chance, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Film, Fit, Behave

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joe Wright

  Art, Division, Film

• 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

  Believe, Pride, Wish

  "Meet the puppet master" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

• 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

  Art, Political, Action

• 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

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