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..

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.

Helena Bonham-Carter and I sat down to talk about [Cinderella movie] and she said, 'I really want to do it but only one thing I insist on and that's ….

Adults are just children who earn money..

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality..

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team..

I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occa….

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great pr….

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty..

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'….

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is le….

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down..

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 th….

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 m….

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 s….

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..

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….

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for ….

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….

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about hones….