Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
I’m not very good at being domesticated. I’ve tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic – the rituals and habits and patterns.
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn’t do it very well.
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’m sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
I guess I’d love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
The film depends on the audience’s belief in this relationship.
I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it’s good to have a mix. I think you’re learning all the time.
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can’t eat.
We’d all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
You feel yourself working to show something. I’ve learned to distrust that feeling.
It’s thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it’s on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there’s very few resources.
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.