"I haven't seen it yet," he said, "and it's very hard to describe Voldemort in this film."

"It's a scary scene," he told FilmFocus, "There's a real menace in the scene; the tone of the scene is quite unlike anything we've seen in Potter before. It's a scary, scary, scary scene..."

"Dan's very good," he said, "working with him was wonderful. Poor guy, he had to be so patient. I had to do all this waffling and talking about how I'm the Master of the Universe and how I'm evil and I'm going to kill him and he has to stand there all tied up, writhing around and groaning with pain while I'm monaloguing towards him.

"The Evil-Genius monalogue bit - no film is complete without it! I just love playing evil characters!"