David Heyman Quotations

I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways.

It's really wonderful that it's the whole franchise being recognized and it's a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us. We are like a family.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.

Ultimately the good shows, the best shows, will survive,

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

Moody is a complex, challenging character. Brendan brought a great balance of ferociousness and humor to the role that makes him both formidable and lovable.

He won't turn into a stuntman, but he's a responsible boy.

It is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.

You don't bring in a director like Mike Newell and tell him, 'Well, you've got to make a film just like Chris Columbus,' ... It'd be foolish. So for me, I look this film, I see Mike Newell. I mean, I see Jo Rowling, but I see Mike Newell written all over it and that's really exciting for me.

We had a lot of chatter and there were no attacks, ... Now that there's no chatter -- does that mean there will be no attack, or is there something else we should be concerned about? I don't think we have enough information to conclude what it means.

I've never caught anyone making out behind one of the backings or anything like that. I'm sure it's probably gone on, but I don't want to know about it.

Northern Command's mission to protect the homeland against foreign threats is separate and distinct from its mission to provide support to civil agencies in the event of a terrorist attack of catastrophic proportions. So part of the confusion you're seeing is the natural shaking-out process as the Defense Department stands up a new command and adopts a new mission that most generals assumed with great reluctance in the first place, given that their forces and budgets were already stretched thin. In that sense, Admiral Keating's comments were probably less about someone gunning to take the lead, and more a reflection of how much support Northern Command will likely be asked to provide in the event of a real catastrophe.

There is no way they are going to come up with a different answer.

It's almost impossible to get east-west in the afternoon rush hour unless you have an hour or two to spare,

It's pretty clear that D.H.S. is still the boss.

The best shows will survive. The audience will decide that,

It's well done. It's creative. I think it's at the right level to get kids involved. But will it lead to plans, to families being prepared, or the actual steps you need to take if there's a nuclear, biological, chemical or explosive event? Or perhaps even a hurricane? That's undetermined, and it will be determined by the level that parents and schools and communities use the program.

They decided this was as significant a threat as they had seen, in all the information that they've seen, and that's why they went and raised the alert.

This is a very important intersection in the north part of the city and maybe we've been pushed aside because the people in the south have been the squeaky wheel. But maybe we have to play that game too.

I'm interested in people on the fringe, ordinary people who have to deal with extraordinary things.

And now I'm thinking we almost have to start a lobbying effort just to be treated on an equal basis.