Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

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.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

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.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

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.