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.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work.

I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

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

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