I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

Somewhere the glamour has gone because of the industrialization of this whole process. I wish it [filming] felt as magical and glamorous as people want it to be, but it feels like a routine people are going through.