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.

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

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

I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so it was an imaginative surprise from my Disney family to pull me out of the hat, as it were in Cinderella.

It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit recently, and in Russia, they completely believe they own this tale. And in Italy, they feel it absolutely is part of who they are. There is a timeless web to it.

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

My definition of success is control.