It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.