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Dennis Muren

(1946) Director United States

23 quotes in 219 categories

Dennis Muren is a director from the United States, best known for Mad Dreams and Monsters.

Quick Facts About Dennis Muren

Born: November 1, 1946
Nationality: United States
Profession: Director
Notable works: Mad Dreams and Monsters

About Dennis Muren

Dennis Muren, A.S.C is an American film visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked on the films of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and James Cameron, among others, and has won nine Oscars in total: eight for Best Visual Effects and a Technical Achievement Academy Award. The Visual Effects Society has called him "a perpetual student, teacher, innovator, and mentor."

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Technical Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Special Achievement Academy Award star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by Dennis Muren

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

Trust

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Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much…

Done

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I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up.

Coming

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I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary…

Always

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But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting…

Book

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And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy…

Being done

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To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the…

Breakthrough

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Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling…

Audience

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You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem…

Giving

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And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come…

Aesthetic

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Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang…

Certain

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What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the…

Being afraid

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I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for…

Being

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You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a…

Character

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Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he…

About

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I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits…

Cinema

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I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

Done

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Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I…

Anymore

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I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your…

Able

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I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in…

Back

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So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so…

Character

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It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

Harder

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Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine…

Along

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