I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!
I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11. So that was when I was taken out of the school system... I think the longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.
I have no idea how much money I've got.
And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.
I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!
For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.
And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.
I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
I have a very busy personality.
I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.
Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.
My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.
It's really good to talk about it [ hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts], and it's very gratifying when people ask us about the other aspects of the film [Swiss Army Man], but [those things] are part of the movie and they're important and hilarious, a very fun part of the movie, so there's no sense from us of not wanting to talk about that. I think it's exciting that those things exist in a film that is also very heartfelt and emotional and profound.
Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.
Potter for me is something that's been giving me these amazing opportunities to start a career and learn while I'm doing, which is the best way to learn.
The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?
It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there's no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes.
The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.
