Mr. Darcy: And she must improve her mind by extensive reading.

Lizzy: I’m no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I wonder at you knowing any.

Mr. Darcy: Are you so severe on your own sex?

Lizzy: I never saw such a woman. She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold.

“In the beginning, Darcy can’t deal with the fact that he fancies Lizzie, so they are like children in a playground, in the way that kids pull hair because they don’t know how to express their feelings”.

(Joe Wright, Director)

“I love Jane Austen, although I hadn’t read the novel for 40 years. Joe wrote me a letter. He said there was a quality of me in Cold Mountain that he wanted for the father of these girls. Somebody, he said, who didn’t get married until he was 45. He had to wait until his father died before he married, and then he had 5 daughters. It’s worth nothing that none of them could inherit his estate because the law then was that the estate must pass to a male heir, in this case a distant relative (Mr. Collins). All very intriguing to play.”

(Donald Sutherland)

Lizzy´s effect on Mr. Darcy.

That´s so sweet and kind :). Thank you very much !!!

“Wanted to keep as many bonnets out of the film as possible. Bonnets are just too clichéd for Jane Austen. But I did like that one on Rosamund. I thought it looked like a halo”.

(Joe Wright, Director)

“It reminds me of “Elizabeth”, this shot. A lot of shots in the film “Elizabeth” were from above. Shekhar had some idea about it being God´s eye view. It was in a short film about art”.

(Joe Wright, Director)

“His (Mr. Darcy) costume had a series of stages. The first time we see him he’s at Meriton, where he has a very stiffly tailored jacket on, and he’s quite contained and rigid. He stays in that rigid form for the first part of the film.

By the time we get to the proposal that goes wrong in the rain, we move to a similar cut, but a much softer fabric. And then later he’s got a completely different cut of coat, not interlined, and he wears it undone.

The nth degree is him walking through the mist in the morning, completely undressed by 18th-century standards. It’s absolutely unlikely, but then Lizzie’s in her nightie, so what can you say?”

(Jacqueline Durran, Costume designer)

“I got my stripy stockings, which were my big thing. I wanted stripes for Elizabeth! I was really obsessed about stripes. And (director) Joe (Wright) was like: ‘Well, you can’t have every single one of your dresses striped but I will give you stripy stockings’. So all my stockings in the film where striped. So I got those. What else did I get? I got the boots. Lizzie always wears boots. Those green kind of boots”.

(Keira Knightley)

Thank you very much, you´re very kind :). That really makes me so happy. I´ll try to post as much P&P as possible.

“I think it was a really nice choice of Claudie’s to have Charlotte change and become impressed by Lady Catherine and to kind of get involved in Mr Collins’s set of values.
The idea that they’re happy together, that they’ve found some way of living. Perhaps much later in life she’ll look at him and wonder whether she did the right thing, but right now, she’s happy”.

(Joe Wright, Director)

Jane wearing sunglasses.