I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

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 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 don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

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.

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.

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.