There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.