Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in Cinderella. She is happy to be a villainess and very pleased to be encouraged as I did with her to reveal this backstory and feel as though this was very human, that this broken heart of hers, if you might regard it that way, would be visible, but she never played for sympathy and I really admired that about her, so she's just there, she just is and uncompromisingly.

Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

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

I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"