Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

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

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

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

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

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

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.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

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!

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.

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

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

In the first earthquake scene [ in "2012"], there was only a limo and a plane. That was it. There was nothing else there, so everything had to be created in the computer, and that's always very difficult.

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I don't direct movies for a living.

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 don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.

Big feature films are another world.

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

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.