Dacre Montgomery Quotes

It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

It's hard, the green screen; it's a different way of working.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.

Technically, the green screen acting can be difficult because there's something worse than a tennis ball on the end of a stick; it's an Australian visual effects assistant running around a field with a cardboard dinosaur head on the end of a stick while wearing sandals.

On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.

When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

Acting with a green screen has been physically challenging. I look at the green screen and then I'll look somewhere else and everything looks red. It's a bizarre thing where green has an effect on my vision, but it's fun.

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don't on different types of films.

One of my first things I was fascinated with when I got on set was how does Grant do all this Flash stuff? it looks so good as the end product, but how does the special effects team work? How does the visual effects team work?

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

It's all about the special effects.

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

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

I don't have anything against CGI.