Joe Wright packs a punch for Vanity Fair

On the Vanity Fair site, John Lopez talks with Hanna’s director Joe Wright for his piece “Q&A: Director Joe Wright on Hanna, Sucker Punch, and Keira Knightley.” It’s a wide ranging piece, moving from Jane Austen to Leo Tolstoy, French film to American action flix, from feminism to fairy tales. At one point the two turn to the art of the action film, with Wright explaining:

I don’t make a division between an art film and commercial art. There’s good art and there’s bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it’s possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience. I liked that idea of making an action film that was the opposite of misogynistic, gun-loving bullshit. Something that could entertain, first and foremost, but also have a social conscience.