If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.
I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.