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

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've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

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

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.