He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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.
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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.
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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.
