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

I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in my house and all of it seemed to say that there was room for a version that delivered, in this story, which seems to invite a feeling in people and I think that is some version of a classical world.

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

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.

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

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.