Joe Wright Quotes

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I design therefore I become.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

You learn something new on every film.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Every day that you're on set is a new day to learn something. Every time you're there, there's something new that you'll notice or something that you'll miss, and you think of something new that you can do.

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

When I did my first film, I had a fair idea of what I liked and what I didn't while watching an actor in front of the camera. After I finished the film, I thought I had exhausted everything I knew. As I moved from one story, setting and character to another, I discovered something new.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.