Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

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

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

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.