Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

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

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

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.

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

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.