If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.