Ser'Darius Blain Quotes

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.

I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

I love to be creative.

I believe in creative work.

I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.

I can't imagine a more profoundly exciting experience than I had working on 'Avatar.' And whether I'm ever part of it again, I'll always be very proud that I was a part of it.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day.

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

Making a movie really frees up the way you think.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.