I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.

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

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

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

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

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

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.