Keith Barry Quotes

I don't know, I'm still a little bit like, when you blend CGI well with real life, it's impressive, but if you remove real life completely, I still get pulled out of the movie a bit.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

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.

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.

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

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.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

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

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

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

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

Movies are like magic tricks.

Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.

As long as you don't think about the whole big picture, producing 'Spider-Man' is a fantastic experience.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

For 'Avengers,' in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a platform, nine feet high... and it was the rooftop of a skyscraper in New York. And it was all desert around me!

It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.