Name	Joe Wright
Occupation	Director
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Quotes

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. Generally, I`ve never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

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I took the screenplay to the pub with me one Sunday afternoon and started reading it. By about page 60 I was weeping into my pint of lager. I was very moved by it and laughing out loud as well.

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Tom kept saying: `This is the happiest day of my life!`

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Matthew was the only man for me,

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This is too much for any one group to handle. We need a cooperative strategy that will prevent duplication of services and keep people from falling through the cracks.

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The human heart doesn’t change that much, ... I think they’re a few writers where you don’t understand where their talent comes from. Those kind of artists speak inherent emotional truths we’ll always be attached to.

(thinkexist.com)

Pride [and Prejudice] 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 fulfillment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

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To me, naturalism is the death of drama. Lee Strasberg came along and the Method f***ed everything up. I find people like Celia Johnson are my favorite actors. I was brought up on films like Brief Encounter, and for me they expressed enormous truth. Marlon Brando does not have the monopoly on truth!

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I was coming to it fairly fresh,

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Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new. I`ve been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

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The most important thing for me was to create the family,

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We are pleased to announce the purchase of the Horizons-2 satellite which extends two significant partnerships that PanAmSat has developed over the past five years, ... First, PanAmSat and JSAT will double capacity in our Horizons joint venture, which has already proven to be a highly successful for both companies. This satellite will provide Ku-band growth capacity in North America for PanAmSat in 2007 through the next decade. And secondly, we are extending our relationship with Orbital Sciences as our primary supplier of small satellites which have become a critical part of our business strategy going forward.

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We were trying to understand the emotional relevance of every move and gesture.

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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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Trivia

Trained as a filmmaker at London's St. Martins art school.

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Is Dyslexic and left school with no O-levels.

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His parents founded Islington's Little Angel Theater, a puppet theater.

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In 2007, he became the youngest director in history to have a film open the Venice Film Festival (his film Atonement was chosen to open 64th Venice International Film Festival).

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Father died when the director was only 19 years old.

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Became engaged to actress Rosamund Pike in September 2007. They met on the set of Pride & Prejudice (2005).

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Directed Keira Knightley in an Oscar-nominated performance as Lizzie Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005) in what was his directorial film debut.

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Named one of Variety's "10 Directors to Watch" (2006).

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Attended the Camberwell College of Arts.

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His father was 65 when he was born.

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