I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

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.

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

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.