Special effects Quotes

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.

— Stan Winston

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

— Lily Rabe

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

— Christopher Eccleston

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

— Matthew Vaughn

It's all about the special effects.

— Chris Kirkpatrick

I'd like to act in a film without special effects.

— Richard Armitage

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

— Jackie Chan

The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.

— Jamie Hyneman

I've always been respectful to all the people who do visual effects and special effects, because making movies is also making magic.

— Gaspar Noe

In special effects, you can cheat to make it look good. In real science, you have to have results.

— Grant Imahara

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

— Chuck Palahniuk

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

— Lacey Chabert

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

— Laurence Fishburne

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

— John Boorman

You don't want people to look at something and think that was a fantastic special effect.

— Gale Anne Hurd

If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's…

— William Gibson

When I used to work in special effects at the model shop, I couldn't imagine having a better job. We made spaceships…

— Grant Imahara

Once in a blue moon, everything will be right with the man in the sky, and when I start singing 'I Love…

— Eddie Rabbitt

Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and…

— Jeff Fisher

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy…

— Camille Paglia

That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I…

— Richard Dean Anderson

When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's…

— Mel Brooks

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film…

— Herb Ritts

When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and…

— Jamie Hyneman

I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing…

— Anonymous

We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep…

— Eric S. Raymond

“At some point, Wax mentioned how appalling it seemed that those brilliant minds who could invent miracle medicines and nuclear fission and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us…

— Joseph Kosinski

The most fun about working with special effects is that you have to really rely on your imagination to build the scene.…

— Ser'Darius Blain

It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman.…

— Robert Altman

“It's an established fact that the very few naturally gifted "born teachers" are enormously more effective than the great mass of those…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“Star Wars introduced a new way for using the five screen speakers [in theaters]. By pushing left and right sound channels to…

— Michael Rubin

“Machines produce only machines. The texts, images, films, speech and programmes which come out of the computer are machine products, and they…

— Jean Baudrillard

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is…

— Andrew Clements

“I feel like a pink worm in the core of this green room, as though I have eaten my way in and…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“He’s an immortal from Brazil,” Chris said. “His mortal lover, whom he thought was completely trustworthy, videotaped them having sex—” “Awesome!” Sheldon…

— Dianne Duvall

“I well remember the first great hemp shop that was opened in San Francisco around 1976. It was essentially a long wooden…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“All right, but you know Star Trek, and ‘Beam me up, Scotty’? How they can teleport people around?” “Yeah. The transporters.” “Do…

— David Wong