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

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

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

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

It's great to be on a set where there's time and there's focus and there's also a kind of adrenaline thrill on a set where people are saying: "We have to get this shot, we've have to go, we've got to move on!"

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.