I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.