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[..] MA: Certain fans get really upset when the smallest of details are cut. Part of this report said you had nicknamed the script, "Harry Scissorhands," because of all the cuts that had to be made.
MG: You know, I have to hand it to this guy. Very inventive! He obviously spent some time thinking about this, but no. No, not words that have ever passed my lips.
MA: Can you give me an example of a cut you had to make that you just really had hoped would stay?
MG: I know there was some controversy about the Ron-Quidditch sub-plot. I hated to cut anything. But in that case, because it wasn't really central to the story and there's so much else to deal with, we all felt pretty early that was something that might not make the film. But by the same token, the spirit of that story, and Ron growing as a character and Ron facing challenges and coming into his own in the same way that Harry is, we tried to get that into the film in other ways, as much as possible. So, you feel like, if not the details of that story, at least the spirit of it is present in the film. I feel like we've done that.
MA: I want to back up a little and talk about you, about you as a writer and where you come from and how would you stumbled into this Potter world.
MG: Yeah, well, I first met [Producer] David Heyman years ago, when no one, at least in the States, had ever heard of Harry Potter. I think it was starting to become a phenomenon in the UK. Actually, Warner Brothers sent me the book and we talked about it. I remember reading the first book without any preconceptions at all, without any hype, and thinking, "Wow, this is amazing!" Jo and I are, I think, just about the same age. It's probably presumptuous to say, you know, as a kid growing up, we would've loved sharing stories about these kinds of books. I'd have read these kinds of books. We were kind of on the same page from the beginning.[..]
[..] MA: Certain fans get really upset when the smallest of details are cut. Part of this report said you had nicknamed the script, "Harry Scissorhands," because of all the cuts that had to be made.
MG: You know, I have to hand it to this guy. Very inventive! He obviously spent some time thinking about this, but no. No, not words that have ever passed my lips.
MA: Can you give me an example of a cut you had to make that you just really had hoped would stay?
MG: I know there was some controversy about the Ron-Quidditch sub-plot. I hated to cut anything. But in that case, because it wasn't really central to the story and there's so much else to deal with, we all felt pretty early that was something that might not make the film. But by the same token, the spirit of that story, and Ron growing as a character and Ron facing challenges and coming into his own in the same way that Harry is, we tried to get that into the film in other ways, as much as possible. So, you feel like, if not the details of that story, at least the spirit of it is present in the film. I feel like we've done that.
MA: I want to back up a little and talk about you, about you as a writer and where you come from and how would you stumbled into this Potter world.
MG: Yeah, well, I first met [Producer] David Heyman years ago, when no one, at least in the States, had ever heard of Harry Potter. I think it was starting to become a phenomenon in the UK. Actually, Warner Brothers sent me the book and we talked about it. I remember reading the first book without any preconceptions at all, without any hype, and thinking, "Wow, this is amazing!" Jo and I are, I think, just about the same age. It's probably presumptuous to say, you know, as a kid growing up, we would've loved sharing stories about these kinds of books. I'd have read these kinds of books. We were kind of on the same page from the beginning.[..]
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