There is a new interview with David Yates online now.

Next time around [Half-Blood Prince], Mr Yates hints that he is really going to enjoy himself. “The next movie is less intense on one level. It’s more sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, I would say.”

Emma says:
“It was really lovely because David listened to what we had to say about our characters. He was respectful of the fact that we have been playing these people for five films now.”

Dan says:
I think he managed to take the charm and visual flare of the earlier films and add his own sense of grit, that perhaps was not there before. He is a delightful man, very soft-spoken. Yet I have never been pushed as hard as I was on this film, partly because of the nature of the story, and partly because of his directing.  He always wanted me to go deeper.

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There is a new David Yates interview online.

When Yates starts shooting Half Blood Prince later on this year, JK Rowling will have the time to hang out on set, given that there are no more Harry Potter books to be written. ‘Jo is actually going to come and join us for a few days and talk through the script. I’m really looking forward to having her around; she’s grown up enough to say that the film is a separate entity to the book so she always leaves the director to get on with his job. Having said that, she has great ideas and insights.’

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Film Journal has done an interview with Harry Potter director David Yates. In the interview he talks about Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was “filmed in seven or eight months–yeah, it was a juggernaut!–but, in total, it has taken about two and a half years from the day I initially sat down with Michael Goldenberg in L.A. to look at the first draft of the script. There were numerous revisions and storyboarding and prepping before The Delivery.”

Regardless of that outcome, Yates is keeping the lad alive via flick six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. “I’ve been getting the next one ready for three months now while I’m finishing up Phoenix. I’m doing a Chris Columbus. He did the first two films back-to-back, and he had this crazy schedule where he was dubbing One while he was prepping Two. I’ve been doing the same with Five and Six. We start shooting in September.”

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David Yates, Dan Radcliffe and Emma Watson have taken part in a new interview about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Emma on David Yates:

He’s quiet, thoughtful, sensitive. Mike [Newell, director of Goblet of Fire] would sit in his chair and yell at us, or stand up and just be very loud and British. Whereas David will think for a bit, he’ll come over, speak a few words, keep it to a minimum. The thing that always comes up with David is finding truth in the characters, truth in the performance, make it real.

Dan:

“I’m ready to be pushed and challenged,” says Radcliffe, who this year made his London stage debut in “Equus” to good reviews. “The other directors could have pushed and challenged, and did, but I wasn’t ready. With David, I think I’m at a stage where I can more competently give him what he wants out of a scene and with more detail.”

David on Harry:

“I thought it would be interesting to make him feel a little bit more fragile, a bit more vulnerable. That heightens the emotional stakes because you know he can be killed.” Part of that change of emphasis was to treat magic as a vital, dangerous force. “To make people realize how powerful and dangerous magic could be.”

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I was waiting for both parts of the interview to come out before posting. So, an interview with David Yates is now online where he discusses Order of the Phoenix with GeekMonthly.com

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First Interview
Second Interview