David Heyman Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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