When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.