"There's good art and there's bad art. A……" — Joe Wright
"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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18 Quotes by Joe Wright
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So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious,…
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I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I…
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An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
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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…
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I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
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I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
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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 like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
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I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can…
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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…
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I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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