Airplane Quote by John Dykstra

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that…

— John Dykstra

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…

— John Dykstra

I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part…

— John Dykstra

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…

— John Dykstra

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

— John Dykstra

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts…

— John Dykstra

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

— John Dykstra

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…

— John Dykstra

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

— John Dykstra

Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses. An understanding…

— John Dykstra

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale,…

— John Dykstra

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…

— John Dykstra