Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable.

It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.

I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.

I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.

By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.