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

Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it.

I think the truth is the Marvel fiefdom exists very independently inside the Disney world, inside the Disney universe. They're not resistant to that kind of thing but they have their, you know there is a whole sort of machine energy and momentum that is the sort of creative drive behind the whole universe that has a big impact on the individual films. I'm glad those scenes got out there. And we've got a few interesting deleted scenes on this.

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

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.

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.

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