James Wan Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

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

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

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.

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

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

Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.

We have an amazing team at ILM who can create fantastic effects.

If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.

We're always striving to make Avatar look like a cinematic, live-action movie.

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

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.

You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.