So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opi….

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad..

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to ma….

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings..

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit..

One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to….

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art..

I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming..

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work..

I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all th….

I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie….

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looke….

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad..

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential..

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new..

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone..

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension..

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And t….

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement..

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me..

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out ….