I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn't for Harry Potter. And it would be height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

[I] take inspiration from kids. ... They're very honest in how they act and how they are in the world.