David Heyman
David Heyman
David Jonathan Heymanis an English film producer and the founder of Heyday Films. In 1999, he secured the film rights to the Harry Potter film series and went on to produce all eight installments, becoming the most important member of the crew to be involved in all the films. In 2013, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture as the producer of Gravity, his second collaboration with director Alfonso Cuarón after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionFilm Producer
Date of Birth26 July 1961
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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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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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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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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.
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I'm interested in people on the fringe, ordinary people who have to deal with extraordinary things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.