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

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

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

So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

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.

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.

I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work.