Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

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.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

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

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.