Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

Voldemort? That might be real.

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.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.