Joe Wright

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: The Soloist (2009); Pan (2015); Darkest Hour (2017); Anna Karenina; Atonement; Black Mirror (TV episode directed by Wright); Hanna; Pride and Prejudice.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Pan (2015): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. career (career) · through Darkest Hour (2017), which they directed: Pan ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright says Pan's failure and his own doubt are what made the doubt-ridden Churchill script resonate.
    “I had made a film called Pan, which had lost about $100 million, and had been slated, really, by most everyone, and I was suffering my own crisis of confidence”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:02:29 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. career (career) · through Darkest Hour (2017), which they directed: Pan ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). After Pan he decided he was not cut out for big studio movies and wanted to return to his wheelhouse.
    “I realized after Pan that I wasn't cut out necessarily for the kind of big studio movies, and I wanted to return to something that was closer to my wheelhouse.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:03:05 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Andrei Tarkovsky: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Darkest Hour (2017), which they directed: Andrei Tarkovsky ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright wants his work called cinematic and cites Tarkovsky's 'sculpting in time'.
    “as Tarkovsky put it, sculpting in time.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:15:27 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Anna Karenina: 1 line, within their own work

  1. contrast (contrast) · through Darkest Hour (2017), which they directed: Anna Karenina ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Darkest Hour's stripped-back look is a reaction against Pan and Anna Karenina.
    “as a kind of reaction to what I've been doing before, including Pan, but also, you know, Anna Karenina and movies like that.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:04:41 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Charlie Brooker: 1 line

  1. people (people) · them, directly: Charlie Brooker ⇒ Joe Wright (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Brooker's script brought Wright back to why he makes films.
    “I got this amazing script from Charlie Brooker, which was just people talking to each other in rooms.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:03:33 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Martin Scorsese: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Martin Scorsese ⇒ Joe Wright (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright's aspirational filmmakers were Kieslowski, Clarke, Loach, Altman, Scorsese, Lynch, Coppola, not superhero fare.
    “Robert Altman, Scorsese, David Lynch, and Coppola, and those are the people that I aspired to be.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:23:12 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Max Richter: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Darkest Hour (2017), which they directed: Max Richter ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show). Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Max Richter.
    “I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Nils Frahm: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Darkest Hour (2017), which they directed: Nils Frahm ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show). Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Nils Frahm.
    “I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Philip Glass: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Darkest Hour (2017), which they directed: Philip Glass ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright aimed for a cinematic equivalent of minimalist music by Richter, Frahm and Glass.
    “I wanted to try and achieve some kind of cinematic aesthetic equivalent to that music.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:05:08 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Robert Bresson: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · them, directly: Robert Bresson ⇒ Joe Wright (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright keeps Bresson's notes by his bed while shooting to remember he is making film, not painting or theater.
    “I read a lot of breasts on, you know, his notes on the cinematographer and I keep that by my bed whenever I'm shooting”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:16:25 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Darkest Hour (2017): 3 lines, within their own work

  1. career (career) · through Pan (2015), which they directed: Pan ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Wright says Pan's failure and his own doubt are what made the doubt-ridden Churchill script resonate.
    “I had made a film called Pan, which had lost about $100 million, and had been slated, really, by most everyone, and I was suffering my own crisis of confidence”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:02:29 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. career (career) · through Pan (2015), which they directed: Pan ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). After Pan he decided he was not cut out for big studio movies and wanted to return to his wheelhouse.
    “I realized after Pan that I wasn't cut out necessarily for the kind of big studio movies, and I wanted to return to something that was closer to my wheelhouse.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:03:05 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast) · through Anna Karenina, which they directed: Anna Karenina ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show). Darkest Hour's stripped-back look is a reaction against Pan and Anna Karenina.
    “as a kind of reaction to what I've been doing before, including Pan, but also, you know, Anna Karenina and movies like that.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:04:41 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (8) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Sarah Greenwood → Joe Wright. The host notes Wright's production-design and costume collaborators have been nominated for awards while Wright has not.
    “Particularly your team, Sarah Greenwood, Jacqueline Duran, who both worked on this film, have been nominated.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:20:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jacqueline Durran → Joe Wright. The host notes Wright's production-design and costume collaborators have been nominated for awards while Wright has not.
    “Particularly your team, Sarah Greenwood, Jacqueline Duran, who both worked on this film, have been nominated.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:20:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Atonement → Joe Wright. Atonement earned seven nominations including Best Picture, but not one for him, which gnawed at him.
    “When Atonement got 7 nominations, including Best Picture, and I didn't get nominated, it didn't really bother me at the time.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:20:55 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Pride and Prejudice → Joe Wright. His producer warned that few first-time directors get to make a second film.
    “only one in 101st time filmmakers ever makes a 2nd movie.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:21:38 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Joe Wright → Darkest Hour. Wright thinks film is like music, happening in time, and gives actors rhythm notes by singing them.
    “Film for me is most like music.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:06:18 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Robert Bresson → Joe Wright. Wright keeps Bresson's notes by his bed while shooting to remember he is making film, not painting or theater.
    “I read a lot of breasts on, you know, his notes on the cinematographer and I keep that by my bed whenever I'm shooting”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:16:25 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Joe Wright → Martin Scorsese. Wright's aspirational filmmakers were Kieslowski, Clarke, Loach, Altman, Scorsese, Lynch, Coppola, not superhero fare.
    “Robert Altman, Scorsese, David Lynch, and Coppola, and those are the people that I aspired to be.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:23:12 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Charlie Brooker → Joe Wright. Brooker's script brought Wright back to why he makes films.
    “I got this amazing script from Charlie Brooker, which was just people talking to each other in rooms.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:03:33 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Stoner → Joe Wright. His planned next film, Stoner, is about finding beauty in details, disappointment, love, and grace.
    “I think Stone is about grace, and I'd like to make a film about grace.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:25:55 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Joe Wright: Dyslexic, he watched hours of television as a kid before finding a way to read and thinks of film as time.
    “I'm dyslexic and dyslexics have a problem with time”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:06:26 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Joe Wright: A slow reader, he takes about four hours per script, while his agent reads one in thirty minutes.
    “My agent can read a script in 30 minutes.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:07:22 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Joe Wright: He claims lying on the sofa visualizing the film is some of his most important time.
    “lying on the sofa staring at the ceiling in a state of relaxation”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:14:38 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Joe Wright: He dislikes 'painterly' and wants cinematic; still prefers it to rubbish or ugly.
    “I'd rather people said my films were painterly than rubbish.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:15:52 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Joe Wright: He sits beside the camera, cries at emotional scenes, and plays loud Chemical Brothers and dances for energetic ones.
    “I play loud Chemical Brothers music and I dance”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:17:34 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Joe Wright: He only needs a 100 percent return; not interested in 5000 percent profit expectations.
    “if I can get 100% profit, I'm good.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:22:50 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Joe Wright: No superheroes: you have to have loved them as a kid.
    “I think to make those films, you have to have loved them as a kid, and I didn't love them as a kid.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:22:57 · Joe Wright (0.95 sure it was them)