Went to the same school (St. Albans School) as physicist Stephen
Hawking and lyricist Sir Tim Rice.
Daughter Lizzie (25) works for the Independent talent agency that had been ICM.
In 2005 Mike received the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from the University of Hertfordshire in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the development of the film industry.
[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.