If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.

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

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.

Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn't been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who's life is about waiting for a bloke.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.