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Joseph "Joe" Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director. His motion pictures include the romance film Pride & Prejudice (2005), the romantic war drama Atonement (2007), the action thriller Hanna (2011), his adaptation of Anna Karenina (2012), Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015), and World War II political drama Darkest Hour (2017).

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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 all these people were just performing roles in their lives.

Allow, Emotional, Ideas, Lives, People, Things

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

Cuts, Cutting, Done, Taken, Takes

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

Endings, Fairytale, Happy Endings, Ironic

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Choices, Come, Feelings, Intellectually, Intuition

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.

Actor, Actors, Cameraman, Dad, Director, Directors

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

Loving, People, Thinking, Years, Yesterday

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

2Hrs, Cutting, Firsts, Showed, Studio, Studios

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

Happened, Hard, Lucky, People, Right

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

Dimension, Dimensions, Excited, Extra, Play, Trying

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

Born, Father, Together

I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.

Believe, Creativity, Express, Joy, Tension, Thinking

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

Art, Commercial, Division, Film, Make

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.

America, Lying, People, Purpose, Realize, Success

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.

Atonement, Known, Long, Takes

I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.

Might, Teenager, Thinking, Upwards, Young

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Attempt, Know, Knows, Learn, Lots, Presume

Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

Believe, Incredibly, Naively, Part, Pride, Wish

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

Artist, Live, Mean, Needs, Suffering

One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often.

Adults, Children, Eye, Older, Things, Weakens

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

Blue, Careers, Decision, Developing, Happens, Quite

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