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.

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.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.