Special Effects Quotes - Page 3

• Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Real, Loss, Skin Tone

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• Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Reflection, Humanity, Special

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

  David Fincher

  Silly, People, Promise

  Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen.

  Steve McQueen

  Men, Effort, Special

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• My ultimate goal is actually to direct and develop projects. I don't want them to be big projects with a lot of special effects because that's not really what appeals to me.

  Dave Bautista

  Goal, Special, Want

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I went back to Holland and I thought 'Ok, now I made so many movies in Hollywood, I know how special effects work, how to do action for not a lot of money, and I have all of these skills now.' It was something in Holland that nobody dared to touch.

  Roel Reine

  Skills, Special, Hollywood

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• Obviously movies like this [Fast and the Furious 7] don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be special effects or sound editing or something like that.

  Bun B

  Editing, Special, Sound

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• I don't think you need to watch Arrow and Flash to appreciate what it is Legends has to offer. The beauty of this show - and they do this on Flash, and they did this on Arrow - is that we do spend time on character. We do spend time on backstory. We do take a moment in between the sci-fi special effects to tell you who these people are, so that when something happens to them, you actually care.

  Wentworth Miller

  Character, Thinking, Arrows

  Source: www.ign.com

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• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  Adam McKay

  Special, Savages, Action

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• It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's no soul. Movies used to be about people. It's as though we don't tell stories any more. The studios have to make money, and if you want to make $20 million, you have to spend $200 million.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Heart, People, Soul

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Fall, Careers, Creative

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• There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic, but there are definitely some times that we went digital and you're not going to tell the difference, I don't think. I think it just serves the storytelling because that's just the era that we live in.

  Kimberly Peirce

  School, Thinking, Differences

  Source: collider.com

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• I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.

  Grant Bowler

  Special, Fiction, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

  Bill Watterson

  Play, Numbers, Special

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her [daughter]. And what impresses me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.

  Monica Bellucci

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

  Tom Berenger

  Running, Travel, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The special effects team designed everything, which basically allowed me to stand on a green box and look and stay relatively expressionless and all these machines did the acting for me. Just the way I like it (laughs)

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Team, Laughing

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• With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

  Leonard Maltin

  Eye, Achievement, Special

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

  Matthew Vaughn

  Special, Cameras, Effects

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• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  Victoria Pratt

  Real, Stupid, Thinking

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• There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently

  Steve Albini

  Fashion, Fall, Thinking

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• I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.

  Clive Barker

  Beautiful, Running, Children

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• I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Special, Encounters

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• To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

  Dario Argento

  Strong, Special, Trying

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• I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do a horror movie. I took the concept and made a romantic adventure film. I like action heroes who don't take themselves too seriously. I wanted to make everyone take the mummy seriously, but it couldn't just be a guy in bandages. But the main thing was to build in surprises. That's one of the great things you can do with special effects.

  Stephen Sommers

  Hero, Adventure, Guy

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