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 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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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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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'.
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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 is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.
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He won't turn into a stuntman, but he's a responsible boy.
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Ultimately the good shows, the best shows, will survive,
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The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.
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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 don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.
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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.