It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan

I don't want to know what they think of me - there's always going to be someone who won't like it and that'll just upset me. So, if I'm happy with it, it just matters if I've done my little vision.

My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written direct-response; they have never tasted blood

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

I think I just had an evilgasm.

There is life after acting.