Dennis Muren Quotes

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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 doing this work…
• And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.
• Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you…
• 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 Ang together with…
• Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story…
• Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you…
• And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new…
• You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our…
• I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on…
• I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and…
• I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up.
• I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe…
• 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 right in and…
• I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it…
• I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.
• It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.
• Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's…
• So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has…
• Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he…
• To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that…

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