I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.

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

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

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.

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

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.