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" With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally. "

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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. "

" I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art. "

" I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy. "

" I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. "

" An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer. "

" Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. "

" Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural. "

" A lot of directors don't really like actors. "

" I'm not good when idle. "

" I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work. "

" 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. "

" I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it. "

" I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me. "

" 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. "

" My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together. "

" I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone. "

" 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. "

" I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming. "

" Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new. "

" I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential. "

" I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really. "