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