Freddie Wong Quotes

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.

In my first-ever shot, there was a big shell that was dropped on my belly in slow motion. I even asked the director why we are doing it, and he said it would look beautiful... and I wondered, 'Really? But why and how?'

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I like making movies.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I love making movies.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

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

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

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

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

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.

I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.