David Jonathan Heyman Quotes

• We’ve been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Business, Work

• 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.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Family, Work

  Tags in Since

• 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.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important

• I’m interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I’ve made a film called ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’, which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in ‘I Am Legend’ and ‘Yes, Man’, but ‘Potter’ is unique. There’ll never be anything like ‘Potter’ again.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Made

• 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.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Lucky

• 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.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Think, Better

• I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Time, Happened

• 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.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Experience, Love

  Tags in Time

• But I can’t imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn’t really seem the stuff of ‘Harry Potter’.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagine

• 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.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better

• 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.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best

David Jonathan Heyman (12)

Birth:	26th July, 1961
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Producer

About

David Jonathan Heyman was born in London, England. He is an English actor and producer. In 1999, Heyman 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. In the late '80s, he became vice president of United Artists and subsequently embarked on an independent producing career with his first film, Juice, in 1992, followed by the cult "stoner" film The Stoned Age and others. He is also set to produce Fables, based on the comic book series.

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