Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.

When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.

Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn't work or if the movie generically doesn't work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

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

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

What I love about 'Monster Hunter' is the incredibly beautiful, immersive world they've created. It's on the level of, like, a 'Star Wars' movie in terms of world creation.

I'm not emotionally excited by the power of cinema's tricks anymore.