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.

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

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.

War can't bring peace only understanding and love can do that.

God knows our situation

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

That's why I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy