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"And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world."
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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."
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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."
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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"There's not a lot of good movies being made."
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"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."
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"I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it."
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"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."
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"And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world."
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"I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie."
Work
"Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time."
Time
"I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies."
Business
"To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming."
Control
"I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up."
Focus
"I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally."
War
"But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great."
Thought
"I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great."
Actor
"And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that."
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