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

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

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 like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights...

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

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.

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