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Douglas Trumbull

"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before."

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"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before."

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

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Donna Grant

"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Douglas Trumbull
"When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience."

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Douglas Trumbull
"But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him."

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Douglas Trumbull
"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

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Douglas Trumbull
"My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures."

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Douglas Trumbull
"We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain."

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Douglas Trumbull
"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before."

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

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Douglas Trumbull
"I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions."

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Douglas Trumbull
"Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color."

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Douglas Trumbull
"IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film."

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