“He [Dumbledore] was very close to going round the world and conquering the world with Gellert Grindelwald and suddenly it was like he caught himself, so I think he’s always pulling back and, in a way, what we’re seeing in this younger version, is a…

Has he fully given up hope that Grindelwald can come back to his side? “I don’t think he gives up on people, no, I think he still believes that there might be a possibility of turning him. The reason I stick to that isn’t anything…

“I think they [Leta and Newt] were probably still quite close even when Newt goes to America, which is why I think it’s such a jarring thing to come home and find I’m engaged to Theseus. We’ve all known each other for a really long…

“To not look at, and embrace, all the things that we love about Dumbledore would have been foolhardy, but, at the same time, I was really relieved that David [Yates] and Jo both said, ‘Look, there’s so much yet formed, yet resolved in this man’s…

“Fantastic Beasts is giving me this opportunity to explore all of that and reveal things that I’ve had in my mind for a long time. So that’s enormously satisfying, but I’m inventing too. So, it’s taking all of the things that I thought happened and…

“Newt is the heart of these movies, and in a very different way to the way Harry was the heart of the first movies. Newt, for me, represents a man who is good without realising he’s good. He is a man who needs persuading to…

“I think that the Potter world contains certain universal themes about what makes us human, what keeps us human, and what dehumanises. And I think that that has definitely connected with people around the world and, in the Fantastic Beasts world, as you know, we’re…

“In the movie [Crimes of Grindelwald] I included a Chinese creature. I’ve been immersed in a bestiary from China – mythical creatures and so on with their various properties. So, I can’t say too much now, but I’m using something from China in the next…

“I’m a witch, I’m awesome, I teach Charms and her name’s Eulalie Hicks and she’s just like this really cool, really smart, witty, funny, Charms professor. So I’m really excited about it.” Source: YouTube

“I also think there are four love stories in this [film] and I think that that one [Dumbledore and Grindelwald] is the deepest, the purest love and the others just don’t come close.” Source: YouTube