Richard Donner Quotes

Well I think effects are tools.

I always loved experimenting in film.

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.

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.

The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine. We do a lot of stuff on the green screen as well, but when we're outside in the streets, it's all there. It's amazing! The creators have just been incredible.

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like 'Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?' With 'Constantine,' too, they really trust me to scare the audience.

I think, unfortunately, everything is becoming about comfort, you know? A comfortable way to tell a story. The comfortable way, so that the audience will never be lost. A comfortable way to produce a film with green screens or without a lot of physical effort or losing control because of the weather or physical locations.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

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

If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you can see some of his influence throughout.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.

Working with a green screen is easy. It's just like being a kid. But it's not nearly as satisfying.

I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.

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

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.