THEY SAID...
Here is a list of quotes of what people said about Dan. Quotes from TV interviews/articals and various other things.
ARTICALS/INTERVIEWS
"He can really focus on one thing now. His short-term memory has improved, I think. He can now concentrate on a scene completely. It was difficult to start with, separating the acting from what was going on around him. It was all so exciting, and he's so full of energy. But now he can be fooling around one minute, and switch into real concentration for a scene." - Marcia (Dan's mother)
TV INTERVIEWS
"To find an 11 year old with a complexity of someone like Dan Radcliffe, was difficult." - Chris Columbus
"He has a particular quality of naturalness and innocence. The camera really loves him, and other children don't feel threatened by him. One normally dreads working with child actors, but in his case he was wonderful. We cast him for his special qualities of gentleness and watchfulness. He has those in spades. He has a great deal of charm and simplicity. He's very at ease with himself. He'll be terrific as Harry Potter because of his great sense of fun. He's very lively and energetic." - Kate Hardwood (Producer of David Copperfield)
"Dame Maggie adored him. She was so fond of him she gave him a lovely present, an astronaut's pen. He won't be overwhelmed by the Harry Potter mania. He's quite cool and calm about that sort of thing." - Kate Hardwood
"He has a magical quality about him. He takes direction very well, and is very expressive with his eyes. The scenes I had with him were a joy. Every now and then you find someone who is completely natural, and he is one of those. I wasn't at all surprised when he got the job, and am absolutely thrilled to bits for him." - Ian McNeice (worked with Dan on David Copperfield)
"He's got a sense of wisdom and intelligence and a real sort of haunted quality that Harry Potter has." - Chris Columbus
"We saw so many enormously talented kids in the search for Harry. The process was intense and there were times when we felt we would never find an individual who embodied the complex spirit and depth of Harry Potter. Then, Dan walked into the room and we all knew we had found Harry." - Chris Columbus
"Having seen Daniel Radcliffe's screen test, I don't think Chris Columbus could have found a better Harry." - J.K Rowling
''He holds the film together. He's in almost every frame, Dan is an 11-year-old with a 35-year-old heart. There [is] so much depth, so much going on behind his eyes, you realize: This is a kid who has lived a life. This is a kid who can appear haunted and troubled by his past. Yet he's charming. That kind of maturity is hard to find in an 11-year-old.'' - Chris Columbus
"He is extremely composed and watchful and self-possessed. He is very well brought up." - Rebecca Eaton (a David Copperfield producer)
"Daniel is quite a serious wee boy, whereas Rupert is very rock and roll." - Robbie Coltrane
"He is really funny, and he's clever." - Rupert Grint
"Dan is the kind of guy you can make run 20 miles and run back again, join the army, stay there for 3 years. Then tell him to climb Mount Everest and he'd come out saying, 'Hi, can I do that again?' He's just so enthusiastic. However long the hours were or however school was, he always had a smile on his face." -Emma Watson
"Daniel Radcliffe plays the Oliver Twist-like Harry with an unaffected, intelligent approach that maintains his wide-eyed wonder yet grounds Harry in a realistic sense of loyalty and honor." - Kirk Honeycutt (HollywoodReporter.com review)
"As Harry, Daniel Radcliffe has to carry most of the weight of this enterprise on his slight shoulders, and he does a great job. Much of his performance has to be internal, and Radcliffe brings an impressive stillness and resolve to the part. - Helen Stringer (TheMediadrome.com review)
"He's a very nice kid, I'm very fond of him." - John Boorman (director of Tailor of Panama)
"The kid is just fantastic. For never having acted before, you know, he could give me acting lessons." - Richard Harris
"He is a lively, bright kid with an instinctive feeling for the camera. His parents are very stable and supportive. If anyone can survive the hazards of being a child star, and still live a normal life in the world of muggles, he's the boy." - John Boorman
"When you look into Dan's eyes, it just cuts deeper. When we saw his first screen test, it was obvious we were looking at a movie star." - Chris Columbus
"He's a writer's dream. I love it when I see an actor underplay things the way Dan does. In a boy that young , it's remarkable. I'm used to American kid actors who are very sitcommy. With him, there's something special." - Steven Kloves (screenwriter for Harry Potter)
"He's more confident, and it seems to have affected his look as he's gotten older. He's starting to feel like a leading man now." - Chris Columbus (about Dan in CoS)
"They were great. There were a surprisingly low brat-factor. Daniel is fantastic and very smart. He's got his head well screwed on." - Sean Biggerstaff *new