I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

When you feel like there is nothing else matter, you just feel like unable to breath because you finally realise that even the oxygen you're breathing is polluted.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

Baby?" She perched beside him in the chair. "You're kidding me right?" "I was trying it out, no?" "no," she said firmly Simon & Clary

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.

I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it... I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

It is not sexuality which haunts society but society which haunts the body’s sexuality

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.