 I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. |
| I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations. |
| Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur. |
| I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights. |
| I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it. |
| I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. |
| As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away. |
| There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment. |
| You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. |
| It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that. |
| In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. |
| There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer. |
| I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. |
| Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations. |
| I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. |
| I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face. |
| When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. |
| You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling. |
| Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film. |
| I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. |
