Joe Wright in London's Telegraph: Fairy Tales "never happy, sweet stories"

John Hiscock interviewed Hanna's director Joe Wright in  The Telegraph in a piece that explores how real challenges fuel the creative process. Wright opens up about how his dyslexia help shaped his creative process. For example, his dyslexia pushed him towards cinema: “There I found patterns that made sense to me, unlike the written word, where the patterns made no sense whatever.” In talking about Hanna, he reveals how thinking of Hanna as a fairy tale did not turn the narrative into a simple story. Instead fairy tales demand making hard, complicated choices:

One of the things I really enjoyed about Hanna was the liberation I felt in making a fantasy – and I think you can stretch the limits of plausibility as far as you like as long as there’s kind of an emotional credibility to the story. All fairy tales to me make emotional sense and that was the important thing to find in Hanna…Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They’re moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there’s nothing happy about most fairytale endings.