I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

You don't have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.

Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.