I think when, like, things like 'The Wizard' and even like 'Tron,' when it first came out, I was a teenager, and, man, I really wanted to kind of just kind of disappear into it.
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I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.
I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.
I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.'
Because of people like that guy in San Francisco who told me it changed his life, 'Teen Witch' is my most favorite thing I've ever done. I see how happy it makes people, and that makes me happy. The great thing is that no one realized it was going to become all these things when we were making it. We thought we were making a very serious movie.
I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
Oh, when I was a kid, I was raised up with all the Disney classics.
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.
Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.
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