Rachel Weisz Quotes

If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you can see some of his influence throughout.

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

Working with a green screen is so different than working with another human.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

There are always challenges to green screen.

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

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.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine. We do a lot of stuff on the green screen as well, but when we're outside in the streets, it's all there. It's amazing! The creators have just been incredible.

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

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

Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying.

If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.

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

Filmmaking, it has been my first love.

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say 'rain,' and it started raining, and then he would say 'song,' and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God's lap.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

I still feel like a little boy on the set, watching the movie magic being made.

I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.

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

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.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

'Mayabazar' was the film I immensely loved as a kid. Only when I became a filmmaker about 20 years later did I realise its technical marvel and what a great epic it was. I and my visual effects supervisor, while making 'Yamadonga,' took two days to understand the magnification shot of Ghatothkatcha's persona.

My background is in VFX, and I know from experience that the best VFX are when you have something real in the frame that you can either extend or work off of. It was really important to get as much as possible in camera, for real.