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

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

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

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

If it's good art, it's good.

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 that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.