It's all about the special effects.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

I'd like to act in a film without special effects.

The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

'Heroes' was a huge show with 12 cast members and giant special effects.

I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.

I'm of a generation of director that came up understanding special effects.

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

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.

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

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

In special effects, you can cheat to make it look good. In real science, you have to have results.

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

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

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

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

Going from dialogue-driven 'New Tricks' to a movie like 'The Machine' which has special effects has been brilliant.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.

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

Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious they're not real.

When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.

I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

When you're in something as successful as 'Transformers,' you can't use it as a sales piece for your ability as an actress because it's all about the special effects.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.

There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.

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