yates interview

yes,there's another interview of David yates(director oop) online,courtsey leaky cauldron and GEEKMONTHLY.COM ....it was in 2 parts...it is as follows..

GEEKMONTHLY.COM EXCLUSIVE
The arrival of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will bring with it the film series' fourth director, with David Yates following the creative footsteps of Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets), Alfonso Cuaron (Prisoner of Azkaban) and Mike Newell (Goblet of Fire). Along the way, he's attempting to bring his own style to the film as he helps to orchestrate the next stage in Harry's evolution.

GEEKMONTHLY.COM: How challenging was it for you to come in to this series mid-stream?
DAVID YATES: I'd just finished shooting quite a complex epic grown up drama called Sex Traffic and I got the call about this. I read the book and, obviously, it's very difficult not to be intrigued and interested when offered a chance to get involved, because the world is very rich and fantastic and some of the themes in this particular story are incredibly dark and grown up. It was very difficult not to want to join in, as it were. Even though the film franchise has been going on for four pictures now, the attitude of the producers was really to be kind of open to new ideas and new ways of pulling things in a slightly edgier, more emotional direction. Which is, of course, a good reflection of where book five is anyway and what Jo [J.K. Rowling] created in the first place. So you've got lots of the benefits and lots of the advantages of joining a franchise such as this as there is a production infrastructure in place.

GEEKMONTHLY.COM: And dealing with the kids continuing to get older has to be a real advantage as a filmmaker.
DAVID YATES: It's a really exciting time to be at Hogwarts, because, as you said, the characters are older and they're dealing with really complex things. The cast is more interested in pushing themselves and being pushed as actors. It's the best of both worlds. You still feel that you're making a unique film and it's your film, and it's a very one-off story, but at the same time you've been given this tremendous reserve of resources if you need it.

GEEKMONTHLY.COM: What would you say are some of the themes of Order of the Phoenix?
DAVID YATES: Jo's work is full of really interesting thematic stuff. In our story, Harry's having to deal with the whole issue of whether or not he's being corrupted and been made bad by this connection he has with Voldemort. It's classical. Anyone who's ever been through those very turbulent, difficult teenage years where you find yourself growing angry and frustrated and those years are really formative, will be able to identify. They're the years that can sometimes define you as a person. Some people can take that and develop in a positive way, and some people start on a route that ultimately leads them to difficult years. That's what this film and story partly looks at - the very emotional and turbulent time when you're growing up and you're suddenly questioning everything about the world. You're also discovering the world is quite a complex and complicated place, and all the adults around you don't necessarily have all the answers; there might even be falling out amongst themselves about how to deal with issues and problems that are threatening them. And you discover how complicated you are within your own self. What Jo is brilliant at doing, ultimately, is exploring that universal truth regarding that transition to adulthood in this magical universe.

part 2

David Yates on Directing Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - Part 2
GEEKMONTHLY.COM EXCLUSIVE
David Yates, the helmer of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is the fourth director to join the magical film series. In the second part of our exclusive interview with Yates, we explore the politics of the Ministry of Magic, Harry's evolution and what it was like for him to join the film series five entries in.

GEEKMONTHLY.COM: Order of the Phoenix is also dealing with elements of politics, isn't it?
DAVID YATES: Yes, especially the politics of the Ministry of Magic, which is a powerful body that is dealing with this outside threat of the potential return of Voldemort, and instead of a constructive strategic response, they end up closing down and ultimately stifling the wizarding community by kind of taking liberal measures and making them conservative measures. An interesting idea in the story is how fear can sometimes make people do terrible things to their own community and society. We're not trying to parallel anything, we're just trying to look at what fear does to people and how it sometimes affects people of authority with the responsibility of leadership. Jo's book, the fifth book, is just rich with lots of lovely stuff and we try and reflect that.

GEEKMONTHLY.COM: And, of course, you're still dealing with those elements of teenage angst.
DAVID YATES: In a way, they're [the actors] going through it right now, 14 coming up to 17. They're teenagers like we were and they have all of the pressures of being teenagers as well as the physical changes. So it's not difficult to explore those issues. And just Dan as an actor is incredibly intuitive and emotional, and I mean that in a good way. I'd actually rather use the word sensitive instead of emotional, because he's quite strategic about his empathy for people and things. And they're all really bright and intuitive, so getting them to deal with some of these story issues wasn't difficult at all.

GEEKMONTHLY.COM: When you joined the film, how did you acclimate yourself with the cast?
DAVID YATES: Right at the beginning, you always have these rehearsals with any actor you work with. With Dan, in particular, who had to go through this quite complex journey. We sat down several months before we started shooting. We would meet every week and we would talk about what Harry was dealing with. One of the things we did, and it sounds quite intense for a family film, is we brought in a bereavement counselor to talk to us about how Harry Potter dealt with witnessing the death of Cedric [Diggory]. This woman came in to talk to both of us about how people deal with quite intense emotional and disturbing experiences. She deals with people in the police and the rescue services who every day witnessed trauma and death, and she kind of showed us how people process that and deal with that and what it does to them. At the start of our story, and it kind of hangs over the story like a shadow, Harry is having to come to terms with what he witnessed, the tragedy he's seen and it's affected him. Dan was able to glean quite a lot from what she showed us and what she'd seen talking to people. That was kind of useful and helpful in the kind of development of Harry's journey in our film. And the truth is, you never stop talking. Every day. I love working with actors and I love their interpretations of characters. Even on the day of shooting, you never stop talking. It's a constant dialogue.

GEEKMONTHLY.COM: The impression you get is that there's a chance Harry could go to the dark side of the Force, so to speak.
DAVID YATES: You want that feeling that he could. He frets about possibly becoming bad. In our story you see Voldemort trying to influence him, trying to shape him. It's part of our whole story and how it evolves. It's a perennial theme - Star Wars and beyond - and I think it's especially pertinent to that stage of life when you make choices. Subconsciously you make choices in your teenage years and you start to shape the person you will be for the rest of your life, so it's quite appropriate for this story and this world.
ALSO COURTSEY TO Sci-fi wire

As long-rumored, the director, whose first work on Potter has yet to be unveiled to the public, will be the second Potter director to direct back-to-back films. He told Sci-Fi Wire that:
"I am doing Half-Blood Prince, and I'm doing it because I love the world, I love the characters," the BAFTA-winning director said in an interview. "I think I have more business with this world and these characters."

i have acknowledged all 3 websites...i dunno the links to them cuz i dwnloaded them long ago but cudnt post 'em...if it has been posted before..sorry...otherwise..happy reading..