I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

Be yourself. No one else can.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.