Joe Wright Quotes

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

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It doesn't really work. The most important thing I did was that I wanted to cast all the actors at the right ages. I wanted to cast them at the ages that Austen wrote them. It seemed to me that these are young people experiencing these emotions for the first time. - Joe Wright

I don't want a kid who's interested in being a star. I'm interested in a kid who's interested in acting. This isn't Pop Idol. - Joe Wright

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. - Joe Wright