Henry Selick Quotes

I don't have anything against CGI.

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

Technology is a very important part of cinema.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

It's hard, the green screen; it's a different way of working.

On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.

When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.

I would love to make a kids' movie. But they are very hard to make.

You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.

In 'The Greatest Showman,' I'm back doing VFX myself, allowing me to craft exactly how something looks, one frame at a time.

Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.

In the first earthquake scene [ in "2012"], there was only a limo and a plane. That was it. There was nothing else there, so everything had to be created in the computer, and that's always very difficult.

We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

You know, I gotta be honest. I have not done a lot of CGI work. I just haven't. I mean, there were hundreds of effects in Watchmen, and I probably dealt with almost none of them, because all my stuff was very practical.