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" A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and other things that are kind of a job to manufacture well. "

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" Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very complicated from a lighting standpoint. An example is a starship flying through an environment that's constantly changing. "

John Knoll

Pictures

Struggle

Environment

" There was a 3-foot-long model that was built for 'New Hope,' and then there was an 8-foot model that was built for 'Empire Strikes Back.' The 8-foot model and the 3-foot model are kind of different. A lot of the details are different between the two of them. "

" ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division. "

" You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to. "

" When you are shooting traditional motion capture, it's a big footprint on set. There are, like, 16 cameras that are needed and constraints over the lighting. "

" Reacting is so important to the craft of acting. "

" As Lucasfilm is developing IP and we're working on our projects, we should be using those films to advance the ball further down the field and to make things better for the rest of the company and the rest of the industry. "

" I certainly have opinions about things, but we're a service organization. Our job is to try and realize the director's vision. "

" On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie. "

" Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car. "

" Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible. "

" Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work. "

" You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop. "

" Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference. "

" I read a magazine called 'Cinefantastique' that had just come out with a making of 'Star Wars' issue. They had some very long and detailed interviews with a whole bunch of people at ILM. I think I memorized that whole magazine. "

" I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career. "

" The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, 'Well, they'll figure it out!' "

" When I first started in the industry, there were - this is prior to the era of computer graphics and all these digital tools - there were some pretty rigid, technologically imposed limitations about how you shoot things, because if you didn't shoot 'em the right way, you couldn't make the shot work. "

" In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later. "

" A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it's technically possible to change it late in the game. "

" When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker. "

John Knoll

Hobbies

Kid

" In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects. "

" It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one. "

" I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that. "

" Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?' "

John Knoll

Job

Ask

" Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever. "

" Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it. "

" I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie. "

John Knoll

Job

Important

" I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models. "

" 'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on. That was an important step in my career at ILM. "