There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
