In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

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.

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.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

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

It's thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it's on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there's very few resources.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.