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.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

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

I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.