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

I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.

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.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

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.

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.