books scene-by-scene as written we'd have had

12 hour long films.

I do think we deliver on the spectacle. I think we

always tried to make sure there's a heart

beating underneath that because what

matters most to Joe and to me is that

it's emotionally true.

Steve really got the books he also got

me so this was collaborative and one of

the best experiences of my life

so we met for the first time in 99

yeah I think ya can you remember that

yeah I remember it you know pretty

explicitly because it was I had some

nerves in meeting you because I thought

yeah that I was the yank that you

thought was going to destroy your baby

and i will fill in and I was very keen

on, in some ways trying to communicate

to you. I thought the best way was to

somehow have someone tell you

yeah to take a look at my previous work

...and I clearly wasn't going to pander to an

audience but I remember I remember being

very impressed by you seriously, that you,

I was terrified I cannot believe I could

have impressed anyone in that case I was

terrified when you're weirdly prescient

about the movie business which which

which shocked me i was really wary

that's the truth of it but meeting you

is a massive relief that's good to hear

it wasn't really what you know this

you're making me laugh I'm still where I

still haven't melted completely though

yeah well yeah i know the man you said

to me you know who my favorite

characters

yeah that's just for spontaneous and I

realized I don't think I've ever

acknowledged it even to myself

remember very specifically leaning over

to you and saying i think i need to tell

you the Harry is not my favorite

character witness fine and I didn't know

what you thought I later learned that

you thought that I was going to show

what you said you know who my favorite

character is muscle gonna sing wrong

yeah and I love Ron but

Ron's so easy to love , you know everyone

loves who couldn't love Ron and I saw ok

you love room then okay and then you

said the remaining and it was true

because of my knee was now care to the

Edit state throughout because I think

should such this huge intelligence it

was really kind of exasperation

frustrating character way that was like

the girl that bothered you in school

because stop thinking about it so not

always the easiest to like now when I

select my like that about

that's what I liked about her no but

that you can see how that lead a lot of

fears because she wasn't

most obvious character perhaps for a

person to like or save as a favorite

character and also from and like her

best was arguably unusual you've got on

your knees by the way did you know just

the thing i like about all the

characters was that they were misfits

and almost no more than she um and she

had no pedigree at all to be there

yeah and I thought we've all I certainly

at you know Hollywood is that way is

that there's no just gonna show right

like you sitting in that bunch who would

have full cast entrance exam so you're

just there and you like you say I'm here

and I'm here to work and no you were

very direct with that you work with your

hair respectful but you were very

directly that this is a good thing I

thought it was gonna be good for us

because I think there are a lot of

writers of books were just happy to have

a deal with Hollywood and by the way I

understand it was Jane smiley or someone

who just said you have my book now i'm

leaving because I can't watch this with

someone like that and i think that

that's a one way to deal with it is one

way to do that you clearly were not

gonna be that way but you also were you

were respectful of everyone but I think

you weren't just going to sit there and

let someone say something foolish people

forgotten is there still people talking

about could we cast an american-style

anything that point do I was my only

against that a you were as well there

Ron for some reason the one they thought

everyone could be paranaque I don't know

what I look and I think that there was a

feeling that Harry needed to meet to be

a little more wrong like I remember that

coming up a few times let's make Harry

more of a wisecracker and you said early

on you said Harry is our eyes onto the

world that's his function

I'm reflation is as the observer which

was perfect which is exactly as it is in

the books initially you see the magical

world through the eyes of a kid who has

zero knowledge welcome Harry to Diagon

Alley so that's how you into the one

that uses the scripts were in

if you give me a call from harris point

of view for for a very very long time

exactly i well I thought you were done

brilliantly was balanced and one things

I tried to say to people was you know

ron and hermione is so obviously

colorful and interesting characters and

inherits a bit of a blank slate and yes

i'm just Harry, just Harry

well just Harry you ever make anything

happen

I guess we're different cultures were

able to project onto him what they want

him to be and I think that's why I've

always respected an enormously because

the hardest character for me to write

like a Gris Nez the first character for

you will see the script for you to write

in terms of know that but it's the

archetype of the hero is me the hero so

often is inside the Galahad figures yeah

but the the guy without the quirks the

guy who simply he's the vessel he's the

vessel down is the vessel

yeah and and the hardest to play by a

mile and downs just done a magnificent

job with it and I you know I'm glad to

see laterally has got more credit for

that

why are things in a great job you know

in the last picture in particular um

David I think Dan's been brilliant all

throughout but he's so good in the last

movie is done anything in it all in

sleeves in the silent moments where he's

just you see on his face the the price

that he's paid exactly for all these

years and he's really brilliant but to

convey that was more difficult in his

case

well I don't that was always something I

felt you had a harder job delighted

because inevitably filming the visual

medium it is so much of what i could do

with Harry was have an internal

soliloquy you know I could show carries

in musings I could take the reader into

Harry's internal space and show them

around this character whose life is

maybe eighty percent internal you're

forced to show us that externally so I