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 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.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

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.

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

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

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