I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

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.

It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

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.