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

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

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

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

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