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

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.