"I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end."
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"I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid."
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"I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards."
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"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 of the blue."
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"I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work."
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"I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work."
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"I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone."
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"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."
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"I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming."
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"I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art."
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"I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that."
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"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 the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives."
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"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 that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that."
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"I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years."
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