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

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

But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of hair, and then you go into the place where the gas chambers were. You walk down these halls and the efficiency of it is so inhuman. The place is so powerful, just for its utter bald, bare simplicity.

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.

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

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 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.