English - Director | August 25, 1972 -
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright
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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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The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.
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Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
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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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I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
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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.
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I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
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'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.
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My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
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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.
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