John Hench Quotes

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

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

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

I like working on big budget films.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business.

Original movies of any size are an endangered species.