I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

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