Douglas Trumbull

Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those…

— Douglas Trumbull

I'm developing some high-frame-rate 3-D processes that are going to be, I hope, indistiguishable from reality. This will be quite an unusual…

— Douglas Trumbull

I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be…

— Douglas Trumbull

I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

— Douglas Trumbull

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

— Douglas Trumbull

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

— Douglas Trumbull

Peter Jackson is a real big hero of mine because he had the nerve to make 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second.

— Douglas Trumbull

I got hooked on immersive cinema when I worked on '2001,' which was initially shown on these Cinerama screens, which were all…

— Douglas Trumbull

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became…

— Douglas Trumbull

I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of '2001.'

— Douglas Trumbull

I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.

— Douglas Trumbull

I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to…

— Douglas Trumbull

There's been a bit of confusion about Showscan. The basic problem was, it was film and it was 70 mm and it…

— Douglas Trumbull