“I enjoy telling stories and I enjoy crafting the story and the narrative for the audience.”

“The first two [X-Men films] were enjoyable for me in particular….[I was] doing something that was, on the top, colourful, fun, blockbuster-y, action movie, superhero, throwaway whatever. But, at the heart of it, certainly for the first movie, it was about two guys, who come from completely different ends of the social spectrum, finding a connection. It was the story of their friendship…but it was really a buddy movie and a story of two guys falling in love with each other and becoming best pals.”