News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.

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

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.

Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

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