I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

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

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.