Being A Good Director Is Knowing Sometimes

And Of Course I've Got Kids Of My Own Now, And They Love Me Being In The Harry Potter Films. I'm Now Part Of A Phenomenon. You Become Incredibly Cool To Your Kids, And You Get A Young Fan Base. So You Became The Cool Dad At School. You're Suddenly Hip.

I Was Quiet, A Loner. I Was One Of Those Children Where, If You Put Me In A Room And Gave Me Some Crayons And A Pencils, You Wouldn't Hear From Me For Nine Straight Hours. And I Was Always Drawing Racing Cars And Rockets And Spaceships And Planes, Things That Were Very Fast That Would Take Me Away.

You Can Play Older Than Yourself. You Can Play Younger Than Yourself Up To A Point, And Then That Just Becomes Impossible Because You Carry A Weight With You That You Can't Shift, Unless You Have Very Boyish Looks.

I Think Filmmaking Should Be A Wonderfully Free Collaborative Process, And It So Very Rarely Is. I Often See Directors As Jailers Of My Talent.

Overall I Enjoy A Certain Anonymity. I Live A Very Normal, Very Ordinary Life.