English - Director | August 25, 1972 -
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
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I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
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I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
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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.
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I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
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An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
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I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
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A lot of directors don't really like actors.
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Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.
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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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'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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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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