Wes Ball

When you keep things responsible and manageable, you can make some interesting movies that you maybe couldn't make otherwise.

— Wes Ball

I had this project called 'Ruin' in my head for six years or so. This really big, really ambitious sci-fi thing. It's…

— Wes Ball

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

— Wes Ball

I have a few filmmaker friends who are known for shooting super-fast, and they say that you don't have the time to…

— Wes Ball

I always wanted to do a very fun, adventurous kind of car chase, and the opening of 'Ruin' is essentially like the…

— Wes Ball

You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies.

— Wes Ball

For me personally, when I was a kid, that's like the stuff I wanted to watch - all the R-rated stuff.

— Wes Ball

Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process.

— Wes Ball

Everything is always against you when making a movie, and if you don't have a solid blueprint that the entire team can…

— Wes Ball

We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff…

— Wes Ball

When you're out there trying to still figure things out, it can just slow things down. So you have to kind of…

— Wes Ball

'Jurassic Park' is probably the movie that got me wanting to make movies. It's fun, but it's not totally gruesome.

— Wes Ball

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I…

— Wes Ball

The script is so key to making a good movie. But everything is against you when you're making a movie: the logistics…

— Wes Ball

I always knew the script was important, but I didn't realize how important until you get out there and just deal with…

— Wes Ball

My background is in VFX, and I know from experience that the best VFX are when you have something real in the…

— Wes Ball