Happy Birthday: Mike Newell

Mike Newell

Born: March 28, 1942 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK

[on making the fourth Harry Potter movie] “I was very anxious to break the franchise out of this goody-two-shoes feel. It’s my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting basically.”

I don’t like the term chick flick. I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best. We don’t call The Last Samurai a guy flick, do we?

Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh. I’ve yet to find another one which was surprising enough to do.

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