I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do 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.
I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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 don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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 like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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 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.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
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.
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
