Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
You want to have a critical success and you want people to go see it. It's disappointing if something's well reviewed and no one goes to see it.
You want people who at best are very different. That works because if everything was always the same, it would get boring.
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner.
When you get to over 40 and people are killing each other still around the world and blowing each other up, it gets a bit sort of depressing.
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.
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
There's only one day to shoot one scene, you don't get a second chance. You've got to say, This is what I feel. Could I try this?
There's no sanitation and no running water, but the spirit of the people, their enthusiasm, their joy-the thing I carried away with me was a sense of human contact.
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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.
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.
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
The hype for this particular Harry Potter film-I don't really feel it. I don't have a fan's investment in the books myself.
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
My mother was quite anarchic and yet she had quite a moral code about personal responsibility. She was constantly stimulating her children's imaginations.