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
independent skills people
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.
best good ultimately
Ultimately the good shows, the best shows, will survive,
important visual-effects visuals
The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.
trying film easy
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.
opportunity firsts film
If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.
beautiful thinking ideas
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.
night illumination important
It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.
opportunity challenges potters
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.
wall commitment passion
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.
book right-time has-beens
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
trying film gravy
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.
challenges care way
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.
kids naughty thinking
I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.
things-change
A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.