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.

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

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 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.

The truth is, it's very hard looking back... we look at holocaust now with such knowledge and such a sense of the horror of what it was, that it's hard to believe even now that in 1930s and 1940s, before something like this had happened, that it could be impossible to imagine the extent of this horror.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.