What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.