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 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.

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

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

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

I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.