Special Effects Quotes

• A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

  George Lucas

  Mean, Special, Tools

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Character, Mean, Special

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• I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.

  Stan Winston

  Character, Special, Creatures

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.

  Ben Burtt

  Special, Motion Pictures, Filmmaker

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• Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Special, Elements, Horror

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

  Jami Gertz

  Taken, Scary, Special

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• Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

  Roger Zelazny

  Special, World, Apocalypse

  Roger Zelazny (1992). “Prince of Chaos”

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• The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

  Catherine Bell

  Birthday, Stars, Fun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You don't want people to look at something and think that was a fantastic special effect.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Thinking, People, Special

  "Gale Anne Hurd Talks THE WALKING DEAD, the Show’s Creative Process and Deleted Scenes, Plus Updates on GAIKING and HORIZON". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 10, 2013.

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• Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

  Erin Heatherton

  Beautiful, Special, Looks

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• If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's point of view, the little acid giggies: the little lines and trails coming off of things.

  William Gibson

  Art, Views, Guy

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• Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Drama, Romance

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• I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Fun, Special, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I think "MythBusters" is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Thinking, Challenges, Special

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• I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

  John Boorman

  Talking, Special, Scene

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• I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

  Harrison Ford

  Stars, War, People

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• It's hard work. It's really hard work, but it's really interesting. We have this camera, I think it's called a SimulCam, and when you play it back, you can see the giant in the scene you just shot. It's incredible. You're reacting to a tennis ball that's way up there, then when you watch it, it's this huge giant's face on it. Wow. That's cool. I just can't wait to see it when it's all edited together and the special effects are all crystal clear. It's going to be, hopefully, amazing.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Hard Work, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Special, Important, Velcro

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Motivation, Mistake, Character

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• It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

  Lacey Chabert

  Fun, Special, Visual Effects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Grace, Vision

  "Pearl Harbor" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. May 25, 2001.

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• I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.

  Clint Eastwood

  Special, Done, Effects

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I try to express in my films things that no other art can approach. In my monster films for example, I use special effects in the same way one would use a special film stock, a special camera, and so on. Monster films permit me to use all of these elements at the same time. They are the most visual kind of film.

  Ishiro Honda

  Art, Special, Trying

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• I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.

  Anne Hathaway

  Jumping, Special, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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