Joe Wright Quotes

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. I never enjoyed making films. I didn't like the whole film world - an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I'm used to.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.