Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

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

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

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

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.

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