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In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Everyone's asking if there will be a 'Frozen 2', but at the Studio there's actually been no talk about it!

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

I think there's always this idea in your head, but you have to allow the film to take its own course.

That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.