Joe wright

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

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...

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

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

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

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

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

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

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

'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...