An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

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.

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

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

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.