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Today we're speaking with a director. His credits include Atonement, The Soloist,

Anna Karenina, and Darkest Hour. We're pleased to welcome Joe Wright with us today.

Joe, thank you for doing this. This is great. Thank you for asking me.

Great to see you. I think we want to start with how you got to where you are today. Was this

something you always knew you wanted to do? Did you take another path? What was your journey?

Yeah, pretty, pretty much, really. I think I always wanted to make films. I knew I wanted to

and knew I wanted to be part of a kind of experience that would involve other people.

And I like putting on shows. I come from quite an odd background. My parents were both puppeteers.

Oh, wow. They founded a theatre called The Little Angel Theatre, which was a puppet theatre

in London, which seated 120 people. It opened in 1959 and is still running today.

And we live in the house or we lived in the house next door to the theatre. So there is the house

little cottage and then the workshop where the puppets were made and then the theatre itself.

And it was this kind of all-encompassing little world that we didn't travel out from much.

So I was always sort of around theatre and storytelling. I knew I didn't want to be a puppeteer.

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