I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know."

Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.

It's not great if someone gives you sort of bland praise without giving you clear direction and say, "This is good, let's try it like this." I have worked with someone who seemed quite inarticulate and just would say, "That's good, that's good." That's very frustrating because - it's nice to know something is good but you know it can always change.

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