Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

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

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

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.

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

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.