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

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.

Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

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.

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.