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.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

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.

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.