We'd All Like To Believe That Perhaps

I Feel There's So Much Still To Learn About Acting. But There Is Some Magic In The Capturing Of Performance And In The Process Of Editing A Performance. The Psychology Of Human Beings And What's Coming Through The Face... That Fascinates Me.

There Is A Humanitarian Impulse That One Aspires To And There Are Days When One Doesn't Do It Very Well.

So Much Of Movie Acting Is In The Lighting. And In Loving Your Characters. I Try To Know Them, And With That Intimacy Comes Love. And Now, I Love Voldemort.

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.

I Have A Great Editor And I Enjoy, In A Masochistic Way, Being Ruthless About My Own Performance. How Do I Know, But I Think I'm Quite Good At Saying, "that's No Good. That's No Good. That's It. That's It. That's Good." And I'm With The Editor Who Goes, "no, I Think You're Wrong. That's Not Your Best." There's An Initial Point In The Editing, If You're Directing Yourself, Especially In My Case, Where You Go, "ouch, Ouch, Ouch, I Can't Watch This." And Then, There's A Point Where You Become Hard-nosed And Just Take Your Neurosis Away And Go, "what's Working? That's Okay. That's Okay. We Can Lose That, And Lose That." You Get Objective About It.