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.

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.

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

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 think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

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