You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.