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“There's nothing more damaging than an irate moviegoer who hasn't seen what the film trailer promised.” quote by Saul Bass — Download Open image

“There's nothing more damaging than an irate moviegoer who hasn't seen what the film trailer promised.”

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There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from…

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The average individual lives in a high impact, complex, visual environment.

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When a well-known creative person such as me is perceived to have created a knockoff of my own previous work, such a perception is…

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I began as a graphic designer. As part of my work, I created film symbols for ad campaigns. I happened to be working on…

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Dishonesty in trailers is more than a moral issue, it's a practical one. If you don't deliver in the film what you offered in…

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The products people like best start with function and wind up with look.

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All fliers have some concern about flying. Some handle it by 'flying' the plane. They're 'raising' the wheels, 'making' the turns and so on.…

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A product is often a consumer's only window to a corporation.

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Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re…

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I've watched Spike Lee's career with interest, and he seemed to be striving for an original and moral point of view.

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The very first pieces of film that I did were really graphic designs translated to film. Graphic designs that moved. That was a very…

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My position was that the film begins with the first frame and that the film should be doing a job at that point.

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