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.

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

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

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

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

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

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.