I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure..

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I….

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary..

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 ….

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..

Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside m….

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it'….

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

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers..

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else..

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I r….

Everything is important, but there is a weight to these big or expected things and then there is the logistics of them and it's trying to find, while….

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural c….

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly….

I'm basically quite a cheerful person..

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 t….

I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was intere….

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

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absol….

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

Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think..