I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.