One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.