Visual Effects Quotes

• It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

  Lacey Chabert

  Fun, Special, Darkroom

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

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• Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Today, Computer, Visuals

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

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• The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

  David Heyman

  Important, Visuals, Effects

  "Harry Potter Producer David Heyman Talks Deathly Hallows, Tentpoles, Gravity". Interview with Anthony D'Alessandro, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

  Jami Gertz

  Taken, Scary, Special

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• Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Special, Elements, Horror

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

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• The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

  Catherine Bell

  Birthday, Stars, Fun

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

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• The thrill of doing visual effects doesn't exist.

  Evan Goldberg

  Thrill, Visuals, Effects

  "Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg interview: This Is The End". Interview with Caroline Preece, www.denofgeek.com. June 27, 2013.

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• The image isn't just created with the camera. That's just part one. The editor gets an imprint. The colorist does something to it. Visual effects does something to it. It's not just what you capture that people are going to see. The image gets made in many ways. In production and then in post.

  Christopher Kenneally

  Editors, People, Cameras

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real.

  Rob Letterman

  Real, Cameras, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

  Ricky Gervais

  Roles, Stories, Film

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

  Peter Jackson

  Scared, Film, Crime

  "Peter Jackson & Guillermo Del Toro Talk The Hobbit!". Online Chat, movieweb.com. May 24, 2008.

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• In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Stories, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Artist, Thinking, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Way, Months, Language

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were experts in foreshortening and perspective. The technical skill and visual effects of painters like Uccello have to be admired. They achieved a level of artistry that has never been surpassed, in my opinion.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Art, Skills, Perspective

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define the show.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Looks, Casting, Enjoy

  Source: collider.com

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• The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Character, Eye

  "Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game, Why It’s a Good Family Movie, the Evolution of Space Visual Effects Since Star Wars, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 27, 2013.

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• After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

  David Twohy

  Scripts, Visuals, Budgets

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• I think that if you're creating an environment completely or...in my research, what I've learned is that if it's a CG world or a lot of visual effects, you're almost better doing that in post.

  Neal H. Moritz

  Thinking, Creating, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• One of my first things I was fascinated with when I got on set was how does Grant do all this Flash stuff? it looks so good as the end product, but how does the special effects team work? How does the visual effects team work?

  Tom Felton

  Team, Special, Doe

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.

  Andy Serkis

  Integrity, Character, Emotional

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• I don't necessarily think there's a difference in terms of how the film industry and the ad industry view visual effects. If visual effects (or the lack thereof) are used as a tool to strengthen an idea, they're great. If they are meant to carry more of a load in the absence of a concept, they're a waste and a distraction.

  Joshua Rogers

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

  Source: screenrant.com

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• It's a world creation show [Shadowhunters], so we've gotta work hard in the physical production capacity with the visual effects, the sets and everything. It's not just the real world with two people chatting in a diner. That's tough on a television budget.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Real, Hard Work, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• During the preproduction when I'm shooting and then once we wrap we go away. And then the visual effects guys take over. And then they add all those little bits and pieces. They come up with ideas during the cut in the editing, and they said while would be really cool if we did this thing here where the blade pops out. So then you see the movie and say wow that's a really neat idea. I wish we would have thought of that.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Cutting, Editing, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.

  John French Sloan

  Color, Broken, Principles

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