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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.” quote by Joe Wright — Download Open image

“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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I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art…

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

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Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.

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I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

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I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point…

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I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

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You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have…

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I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

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I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that…

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…

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

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With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.

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