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

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

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

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.