“Darcy lets that whole speech out. He’s prepared all of it, but wasn’t prepared to say `I love you´. He’d written it down and he’d thought about it and he’d rehearsed it. Which is why he rushes through it. Then surprises himself by saying `I love you´. It didn’t occur to him, but he can’t help but tell her.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“Carey Mulligan, Kitty, put on a lot of weight cos I used to get her to eat in every scene. She’s now about two stone lighter”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
“Pride and prejudice is a youthful book, written by a twenty one year old girl when she wrote the first draft. So it’s got great energy, and I wanted that speed and energy running through it. I wanted that youthful telling of it. That’s not because I wanted a youthful audience, but because it was written by somebody young.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“Three months skipping around the English countryside with a load of girls. It was heaven.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“And it’s difficult for Lizzie here cos she’s happy for her sister, but, at the same time, she’s wishing it was her.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“I just love Brenda (Mrs. Bennet) in this scene, just hating him. `My small rectory abuts her state´. I always think that line is really rude. I don´t know why but it just sounds rude. `A parsonage of no mean size´sounds rude as well. I think Mr. Collins has got a filthy mind. He´s all about sex, Mr. Collins, really. Or, rather, sexual frustration.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“This moment I thought up while we were travelling up to Derbyshire. With my eyes shut feeling the wind on my face, looking out of a car window. And I like cutting from an extreme close-up, to an extreme wide. Those kind of dramatic cuts.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“Got all the actors to improvise as much as possible to give it a kind of reality and a freshness. I was screaming at Matthew at that moment to walk through and turn left, and trying to be heard over the music. The energy that you get as a director shooting a scene like that is just the best feeling in the world. The adrenalin of it is just incredible. That´s what we live for. Or at least that´s what I live for”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
