I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.