Pilou Asbaek Quotes

When I was 14, I saw 'Terminator 2.' My mind was blown. What a beautiful movie. I found it really deep and also so entertaining.

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

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.

I was really young, like nine, when I saw the first 'Terminator', and I was amazed by the world they created, and everything James Cameron did.

I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are always huge. You're fighting for your life, or you're dealing with personal stuff. It has really high stakes attached to it, and there are green screen and explosions. You're going out on these really cool locations.

The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in 'Blade Runner.'

If I can make a dance-based movie like 'ABCD', then I was sure I could make a superhero movie, too.

I grew up watching movies and being amazed at the animatronics you'd see in stuff like 'The Dark Crystal,' and all those kinds of movies. So, I'm always enthralled with how they can make it all work, behind the scenes, with the visual effects.

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

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

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

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

It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent.

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

'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

There's nothing worse than a dream sequence done all in post-production.

Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.

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.

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.

Technically, the green screen acting can be difficult because there's something worse than a tennis ball on the end of a stick; it's an Australian visual effects assistant running around a field with a cardboard dinosaur head on the end of a stick while wearing sandals.

The 'Star Wars' universe is full of technological and cutting-edge effects, which Base FX will be a wonderful partner to create with.

When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'