I Want To Swim In Both Directions

Originally, Theater Was My Life. It Was What I Assumed I'd Spend My Working Life Doing - If I Was Lucky. Then Along Came Movies.

Three Children Have Become Adults Since A Phone Call With Jo Rowling, Containing One Small Clue, Persuaded Me That There Was More To Snape Than An Unchanging Costume, And That Even Though Only Three Of The Books Were Out At That Time, She Held The Entire Massive But Delicate Narrative In The Surest Of Hands.

I Think The Thing About Film Is, As It Gets Proved By A Lot Of Young Filmmakers Now, That The Medium Will Just Go On Reinventing Itself, And So You Just Hope To Be A Part Of That And Not A Part Of Some Kind Of Endless Regurgitation Or 'here I Am Doing What You Know I Do' Kind Of Thing.

On The Screen Were Some Flashback Shots Of Daniel, Emma And Rupert From Ten Years Ago. They Were 12. I Have Also Recently Returned From New York, And While I Was There, I Saw Daniel Singing And Dancing (brilliantly) On Broadway. A Lifetime Seems To Have Passed In Minutes.

The Difference Between Being An Actor And A Director Is Simple. The Director Has To Hide His Panic; The Actor Doesn't.