Jed Mercurio Quotes

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

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

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

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.

All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

It's harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they're making the movies better, and I think they feel more original, which I always like.

You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.

Nothing scales quite the way a sci-fi feature does, I mean, you can always add more visual effects; you can spend a lot of money on the visual fidelity alone.

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid.

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

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.

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.

'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D.

'King Kong,' especially the first two acts of it, is a really good example of the use of miniatures mixed with digital characters and how convincing it was.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

For a while, all the studios had their art-house divisions, but that went by the by pretty quickly. Now, they're really focusing on these huge blockbusters, spending a fortune on cartoon pictures and comic-strip movies and superhero movies, and they aren't making pictures like 'How Green Was My Valley,' which was an Oscar winner in its day.

A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.