I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so it was an imaginative surprise from my Disney family to pull me out of the hat, as it were in Cinderella.

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.

It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit recently, and in Russia, they completely believe they own this tale. And in Italy, they feel it absolutely is part of who they are. There is a timeless web to it.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.