Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Rupert Wyatt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English film director Rupert Wyatt.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Rupert Wyatt

Rupert Wyatt is an English screenwriter, director and producer. He made his directorial debut with the 2008 film The Escapist, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His second film was the 2011 blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes. His third film was the 2019 sci-fi film Captive State. He also directed the first two episodes of the television adaptation of The Mosquito Coast in 2021, as well as serving as an executive producer on the series.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.
Life gets more complicated and projects get more complicated after that.
Those who have experienced a great deal of violence or committed a great deal of violence themselves, those who are existing in their own world of sadness and malevolence, essentially those are the ones that are most prone to possession. You don't just walk down the street and suddenly you get possessed. It creeps up on you.
Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier. — © Rupert Wyatt
Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.
I think people who are horrifically abused as children and then start to repeat the same thing to their own offspring or to others, you start to see evil inherent. That's what the Catholic Church feels is necessary to exorcise, to cleanse.
For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.
It goes without saying that there's a great deal of evil in the world, and there's a great deal of benevolence or good in the world. I think the choices that people make and the paths that people take in terms of how they explore their lives ultimately is what dictates which side of the coin you fall on.
We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.
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