Quotes by Douglas Trumbull - Page 1

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Technology
Way
Time Technology Way
Dictated
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Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Film School
Stanley
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I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics.
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Graphics
Superior
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If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.
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Theaters
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I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.
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Fewer
Spectacular
Cheap
Theaters
Tons
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IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
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Design
Computer
Contractor
Ibm
Original
Interface
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I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.
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Film Noir
Love Story
Mystery
Noir
Apply
Frame
Rates
Thriller
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But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.
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Character
Creating
Roles
Concept
Hal
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There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Technology
Consistency
Independent
Pops
Limitations
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I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Artwork
Engineering
Gears
Glass
Motors
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My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Screens
Surround
First Job
Hal
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I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Technology
Believe
Honestly
Leap
Next
Brainstorm
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I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of '2001.'
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Almost
Line
Meet
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We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Brain
Emotional
Memories
Plant
Directly
Images
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I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Unexpected
Unknown
Terry
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Peter Jackson is a real big hero of mine because he had the nerve to make 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Peter
Frames
Hobbit
Per
Jackson
Nerve
Peter Jackson
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Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Artwork
Combination
Engineering
Unusual
Presents
Solving
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It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color!
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Appropriate
Love Story
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I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Computer
Fields
Helmet
Magnetic
Mood
Perception
Scientist
Affect
Perceptions
Profoundly
Visited
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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.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Design
Computer
Consultants
Ibm
Layout
Logos
Screens
Designed
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I got hooked on immersive cinema when I worked on '2001,' which was initially shown on these Cinerama screens, which were all 90 feet wide and deeply curved.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Hooked
Screens
Wide
Initially
Shown
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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.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Change
Smile
Design
Aesthetic
Color
Computer
Light
Particular
Graphics
Result
Scan
Slit
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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.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Experience
Film
First Person
Firsts
Notion
Deeply
Feature
Feature Film
Permanently
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The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don't see any particular benefit.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Particular
Streaming
Content
Benefit
Diversity People See
Downloading
Offered
Theaters
Young People
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I think 'Avatar' is much more appropriate to high frame rates because it's like a ride, and it's futuristic, and vividness and sharp edges and clarity would be an asset.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Appropriate
Clarity
Edges
Futuristic
Asset
Avatar
Frame
Rates
Ride
Sharp
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Clearly, if wed 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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Color
Light
Stars
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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.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Capability
Color
Computer
Planes
Sequence
Complex
Gate
Graphics
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I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary.
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Contemporary
Tree
Tree Of Life
Life Good Respect
Greatly
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I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies.
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Banner
Paramount
Advanced
Explore
Formed
Mandate
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Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter - was really badly flickering.
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Badly
Flickering
Frames
Shutter
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When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Artist
Filling
Planets
Science Fiction
Spacecraft
Young Man
Alien
Became
Portfolio
Liked
Young Artist
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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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Abstract
Hardcore
Literal
Planets
Rockets
Straightforward
Fairly
Bulk
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My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Window
Edit
Frame
Giant
Onto
Personal Feeling
Rates
Screenplay
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There was every reason to honestly say that 3D was a gimmick. And it's largely true. And it's largely pretty bad. When you put a filter in front of the projector, and you put on your glasses and cut the light in half again, the movies are dim as hell, and they give you headaches and eye strain, and it's terrible.
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Strain
Dim
Filter
Gimmick
Headaches
Largely
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'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Dawn
Savannah
Sequence
African
Background
Photographs
Project
Giant
Lens
Onto
Reflective
Screen
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I'm developing some high-frame-rate 3-D processes that are going to be, I hope, indistiguishable from reality. This will be quite an unusual cinematic event - you don't just tell an ordinary story, it's more of a first-person experience where the melodrama doesn't get in the way. Being inside the movie rather than looking at the movie.
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Cinematic
Developing
First Person
Melodrama
Ordinary
Unusual
Event
Processes
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There's been a bit of confusion about Showscan. The basic problem was, it was film and it was 70 mm and it was a lot of it, so the negative cost was very high, the print costs were very high, and it also required conversion of the projectors and theaters and a lot of costs. I just couldn't get any traction in the theatrical movie industry to do it.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Confusion
Conversion
Movie Industry
Print
Theatrical
Required
Theaters
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