Carrie Fisher Quotes

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

I read a magazine called 'Cinefantastique' that had just come out with a making of 'Star Wars' issue. They had some very long and detailed interviews with a whole bunch of people at ILM. I think I memorized that whole magazine.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.

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

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie.

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material.

Jim Henson once allowed me to visit the Muppets on set and spent an entire day showing me how he and the other puppeteers performed Kermit and all the characters! After that, I was lucky enough to work with both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on many fun animation projects and learned so much from them.

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.

What we don't realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache. You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that's not how Hollywood works.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.