Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
Personally, I read a lot of scripts.
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.
I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.
My own idea about 3D is that it is there to enhance the viewing experience but I don't think that you have to use it in a tricky way, I think that the minute you sacrifice story and character for something coming out of the screen, I think you've lost it.
I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.
I'm a Harry Potter fan.
I'm a real blue jeans girl, I wear jeans all the time and I couldn't live without them. Jeans and blazers.
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?