Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.
It's great to be on a set where there's time and there's focus and there's also a kind of adrenaline thrill on a set where people are saying: "We have to get this shot, we've have to go, we've got to move on!"
Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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.
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights...
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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.
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.
I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
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.
You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.
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.
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.
Voldemort? That might be real.
