Political Correctness Has Become A Straightjacket.

It's Becoming Increasingly Harder And Harder; There's No Such Thing As Independent Film Anymore. There Aren't Any, They Don't Exist. In The Old Days You Could Go And Get A Certain Amount Of The Budget With Foreign Sales, Now Everybody Wants A Marketable Angle.

I Have Three Kids Who Like Harry Potter So I Was Sort Of Aware Of It. You Can't Really Move From It: It's On Buses, In Stores, It's Everywhere. One Of My Kids Has Read The Books; The Other Two Are Too Small But They Like The Movies.

I Did Have A Knack For Playing Weirdos. There's Still Sort Of This Perception Of Me Out There As Being This Crazy Guy.

It's Always Hard When You're Playing Someone For A Lot Of People Out There Who Are Going To See The Movie After Reading The Books. There's A Communion Between A Reader And The Writer, So People Will Have An Idea Who Sirius Black Is And I Might Not Be Everyone's Idea Of That.

You Take What You Know, And You Put It Through Your Own Prism. If I Play Characters That Break Down Or Cry, It's Gary Oldman Crying; It's Not The Character Crying.