103 Quotes by Joe Wright

I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.

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.

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.

I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'

American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.