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

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.

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

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

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 see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.