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Vote:   | Alfonso thought that in some of the shots it wasn't obvious that Hagrid was 8'6". If you saw someone that tall, it's the size of one of those statues in the square. That was one the things he was quite determined to show, how big he was. |
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Vote: | And I think he's been very keen to do that. |
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Vote: | Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. |
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Vote: | Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop. |
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Vote: | Every move of the camera goes into a computer, and when they start using the CGI, all those moves are used as points of view. It's mind-blowing complicated stuf, and real state of the art. |
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Vote: | I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having. |
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Vote: | I had no chance of being mysterious at all. I used to put on accents. I pretended to be American because I thought they'd be impressed. |
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Vote: | I have lots of images of my father. One of them is cooking a tin of ravioli in the boat hut when we'd been fishing. I don't know why. And also, he did a fantastic soft shoe shuffle, which he would do in front of the fridge when the day's work was finished. He was very dapper, very smart, always very well turned out. And seriously funny. |
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Vote: | I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher. |
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Vote: | I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years. |
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Vote: | I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus. |
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Vote: | I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight. |
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Vote: | I realised that the distance between what was in my head and what ended up on the canvas was irredeemably large. |
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Vote: | I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made. |
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Vote: | I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. |
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Vote: | I was always terribly, terribly aware of how cliched the whole ritual between men and women is. This was 1964, 1965. The girls all stood on one side of the room, the boys stood on the other. |
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Vote: | I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh school, came out sounding like Prince Charles, which you have to do in order to survive, and then I got called Lord Fauntleroy for the first six months at art school. |
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Vote: | I'll be the one with the steering wheel through my chest. You can write the obituary. |
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Vote: | I'm not really a plumber, you know. In the next film, Hagrid gets the girl! |
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Vote: | I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans. |
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Vote: | I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds. |
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Vote: | I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there. |
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Vote: | I've written a script. I'm trying to flog... I want to direct, myself. Which is always difficult. It's a thriller. Set in the west of Scotland. All sorts of weird and wonderful things. Corrupt oil companies, genetically-modified food, the love, romance and death. And it'll go straight to video. |
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Vote: | Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women? |
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Vote: | It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do. |
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Vote: | It's a very bad time for genuinely creative people to do television or anything now. There isn't a huge audience anymore to get the big budget which you need to make good drama unless you get sponsorship or unless you get teen stars to be in them. That sort of ties in with marketing and Coca-Cola and all that stuff. |
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Vote: | It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific. |
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Vote: | It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for Harry Potter! |
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Vote: | It's was very hot, too. It was 100 degrees when we were filming in the park in London where we did some of the outdoor stuff. It was a nightmare. |
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Vote: | My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager. |
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Vote: | My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but Harry Potter, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you? |
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Vote: | My son's the same, he's terribly funny. It's a wonderful power to have. It's also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if you're funny. You can tell a woman that she's irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way. |
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Vote: | Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out. |
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Vote: | See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. |
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Vote: | That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move. |
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Vote: | The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. |
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Vote: | The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them. |
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Vote: | The worst thing about doing telly is that the people who come up to you are almost invariably arseholes. They are arseholes at their work, they're arseholes in the pub, they're probably the arsehole of the family. |
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Vote: | There weren't a lot of girls smoking dope and asking you back to their place to listen to an album at Glenalmond. It took me a while to adjust. It was ironic, really. |
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Vote: | Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds don't have that level of self-awareness. |
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Vote: | We cut a few lines that we were doing that seemed to repeat themselves. But the writer is around a lot, and he's not possessive about his lines. And so the important thing obviously is to tell the story as it was. Because the children will soon let you know if you messed that thing up. |
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Vote: | Well, I quite like animals, but they're unpredictable. I mean, look at old what's-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. They're quite unpredictable. |
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Vote: | Well, there's quite an interesting piece... where they have to hug. Hagrid insists that Hermione and Ron have a hug. Because they've been fighting all year, you know. So they hug... you know, that's the only problem with 11-, 12-year-olds. Moments like that. |
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Vote: | Well, you know, I'm up and down like most creative people. A bit more up and down than most people, but the tabloids just make these things up. I had the mid-life crisis, I suppose. It was that thing where 10 years ago I could still pass myself off as being a bit of a dude, but in 10 years' time I'll be getting my bus pass. |
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Vote: | What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job. |
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Vote: | When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave. |
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Vote: | Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it. |
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Vote: | Yeah. Well, I mean, how old is Hagrid? 400 years old - something like that? |
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Vote: | You can tell when people worry about things that don't really matter. For example, you should never worry about the level of performance you has given in that particular scene because there's going to be 10 takes, which is wildly over the top, it would end up on the cutting room floor. |