Gavin Hood Quotes

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

The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.

Filming 'Bad Santa' was really where I learned everything that I knew at that point about movies. That was really the first big thing that I had done.

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.

I couldn't do what I did in 'Deadpool' without 'Transporter,' categorically.

'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on. That was an important step in my career at ILM.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

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

When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'

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 doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

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

'Fast & Furious' is a well-oiled machine. Those guys really know what they're doing. The guys that work behind the scenes are just as important as the ones in front of the cameras. They are car enthusiasts. They live and breathe this world.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

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

I like working on big budget films.

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

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.

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