Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan

I don't want to know what they think of me - there's always going to be someone who won't like it and that'll just upset me. So, if I'm happy with it, it just matters if I've done my little vision.

My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

Hurray', shouted Glokta. 'Porridge again!'He looked over at the motionless Practical. 'Porridge and honey, better than money, everything's funny, with porridge and honey!

Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.

I still have dreams in which someone is coming to the door.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.

It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug you designed.'

They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.