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

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.

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 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.

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.

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