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 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.
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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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