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

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

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