"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."
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"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 looked to the cinema."
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"Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad."
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"Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new."
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"I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential."
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"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 opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience."
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"Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp."
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"I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement."
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"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 make an action film with a political, social conscience."
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"I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension."
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"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 watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often."
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"Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life."
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"Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling."
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"My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together."
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"I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me."
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"I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work."
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"I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings."
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"3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard."
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"My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min."
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"An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer."
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