John Dykstra Quotes

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• You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you…
• In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love…
• It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an…
• I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The…
• George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that…
• Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and…
• As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the…
• If you can imagine it, we can make it.
• I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD,…
• Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a…
• Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in…
• I like engineering, but I love the creative input.
• We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but…
• Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all…
• It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you…

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