Joe Wright
Joe Wright
Joe Wrightis an English film director known for the romance film Pride & Prejudice, the romantic drama war film Atonement, the action thriller Hanna, and his 2012 adaptation of the classic Anna Karenina. His most recent film, Pan, is a Peter Pan origin story...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 August 1972
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It wasn't that originally I didn't want her. I think she's being too modest. I thought she may be too beautiful to play Elizabeth. I kind of had the idea that Elizabeth should be a little plainer. So I met a number of people for the role.
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You've got these six women - five daughters and Mrs Bennet - all talking over each other, all wanting to be heard and all needing their space. They've got to appear real.
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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.
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I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.
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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.
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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.
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Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
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I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.
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We were trying to understand the emotional relevance of every move and gesture.
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Tom kept saying: 'This is the happiest day of my life!'
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