ON EMMA THOMPSON
Emma is so much fun. The thing with Emma is that she just keeps on trying. I'm so pleased that whenever people see that scene - those two scenes - it's so much fun, so eccentric, so coo-coo. There's a moment that is very funny and coo-coo that goes into a very scary mode, and that's great.

I mean, obviously we knew that Harry Potter had to have a little rebel hair. The hair is coming, you know, how the hair is, is sticking out, so I said, "Okay, we're going to stick him out, do a little longer here." But Dan was through the process of doing different tests with the hair and said, "Okay, yeah, it's more like that." We want it to be something organic - the hair, the uniform, and the attitude of the actors.

We concentrated on one theme, because what we wanted was a movie that was character-oriented with special effects, rather than to be a special effect film with a bunch of characters.