Quotes About Visuals

I'm not a fan of these very cutty, handheld-y kind of films or TV shows, where a cut is just every half second or every two seconds, where you're desensitized to it. To me, a cut should say something and be impactful.

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Peeta'n?n, Oyunlar'? resmetmek için bir f?rçaya ihtiyac? yoktu. Sözcüklerle de ayn? ustal?kla oynayabiliyordu.

At the time we did 'Night,' I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie. They were very slick, sophisticated... we wanted the opposite look for 'Night.' We wanted it to look like a newsreel.

The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

Glowsticks look great. They look better than holding your mobile phone in the air.

There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

I don't think you can beat a costumed monster. It's brilliant. I'll take that over CGI any day.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Nobody wants an ugly book.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

It's all about the special effects.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.